Alvania bonneti is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
Alvania bonneti | |
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Shell of † Alvania bonneti (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. bonneti
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Binomial name | |
†Alvania bonneti Cossmann, 1919
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Synonyms | |
† Alvinia bonneti (Cossmann, 1919)superseded combination |
Description
editThe length of the shell attains 2 mm, its diameter 1 mm.
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Distribution
editFossils of this species were found in Eocene strata in Picardy, France.
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania bonneti Cossmann, 1921 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=881471 on 2024-01-31
External links
edit- Cossmann, M. (1921). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Douzième livraison. Paris: [the author. 349 pp., plates A-D, 1-6.]