Alvania areolifera

Alvania areolifera is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.

Alvania areolifera
Shell of Alvania areolifera (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	†A. areolifera
Binomial name
†Alvania areolifera (F. Sandberger, 1863)
Synonyms
† Rissoa areolifera F. Sandberger, 1860 (basionym)

Distribution

Fossils of this species were found in Oligocene strata in Île-de-France, France and in Rupelian strata in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

References

• Pacaud, J. M. (2019). Remarques taxonomiques et nomenclaturales sur les mollusques gastéropodes du Paléogène de France et description d'espèces nouvelles. Partie 2. Caenogastropoda (partim). Cossmanniana. 21: 101–153.

External links

• Sandberger C.L.F. (1858-1863). Die Conchylien des Mainzer Tertiärbeckens. C. W. Kreidel, Wiesbaden. Heft 1: pp. 1-40, pl. 1-5 (1858), Heft 2: pp. 41-72, pl. 6-10 (1858), Heft 3: pp. 73-112, pl. 11-15 (1859), Heft 4: pp. 113-152, pl. 16-20 (1860), Heft 5-6: pp. 153-232, pl. 21-30 (1861), Heft 7: pp. 233-270, pl. 31-35 (1862), Heft 8: pp. 283-468 (1863).
• D., Harzhauser M. & Koskeridou E. (2019). Early Miocene gastropods from the Felli section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea, NW Greece). Geodiversitas. 41(8): 323-366.
• Glibert, M. (1962). Les Mesogastropoda fossiles du Cénozoïque étranger des collections de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Première partie. Cyclophoridae à Stiliferidae (inclus). Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgiques, Mémoires. Deuxième série. 69: 1-305