Gastrocopta moravica is a fossil species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Gastrocoptidae.
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| Fossil shell of Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta from a Viernheim research borehole. Scale bar is 1 mm. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Gastrocoptidae |
| Genus: | Gastrocopta |
| Species: | G. moravica
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| Gastrocopta moravica | |
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Vertigo moravica Petrbok, 1959 | |
This species is known from the Upper Pliocene to the Early Pleistocene.[1] Gastrocopta moravica (together with Gastrocopta serotina) is chronostratigraphically significant as an index fossil for the Late Tiglian (= Gelasian, within the Early Pleistocene).[2]
Subspecies
editDistribution
editThe type locality of Gastrocopta moravica is a cave near Hlubné near Ochoz u Brna, Moravský Kras, the Czech Republic.[1]
Records of this species include the Czech Republic, Hungary (locality Rábaszentandrás), Germany and France (locality Cessey-sur-Tille).[2][1]
Krolopp (1979)[4] found Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta together with Gastrocopta serotina in Hungary near Szabádhidvég.[2] Rähle (1995)[5] found Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta in argillaceous high flood deposits in Uhlenberg (Iller-Lech Plate, Bavarian Swabia).[2] Wedel (2008)[2] found Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta in Viernheim research borehole, Germany.[2]
References
editThis article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference[2]
- ^ a b c d e (in Czech) Kovanda J. (2005). "Nová lokalita vzácného plže Gastrocopta theeli (West.) od Pátku u Loun. [A new locality of a rare Gastropod Gastrocopta theeli (West.) from Pátek near Louny]". Zprávy o geologických výzkumech v roce 2004: 59-61. PDF, table 6.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Wedel J. (2008). "Pleistocene molluscs from research boreholes in the Heidelberg Basin". E&G – Quaternary Science Journal 57(3-4): 382-402. doi:10.3285/eg.57.3-4.6.
- ^ (in Czech) Petrbok J. (1959). "K seznání pleistocénních měkkýšů Moravy". Čas. Mineral. Geol. 4(1): 96-98.
- ^ (in Hungarian) Krolopp E. (1979). "A magyarországi pleisztocén képződmények Gastrocopta fajai. Die Gastrocopta- Arten der pleistozänen Bildungen Ungarns". Magyar Állami Főldtani Intézet Ĕvi Jelentése az 1977, Ĕvről: 290-312.
- ^ (in German) Rähle W. (1995). "Altpleistozäne Molluskenfauna aus den Zusamplattenschottern and ihrer Flussmergeldecke vom Uhlenberg and Lauterbrunn (Iller-Lech-Platte, Bayerisch Schwaben)!. Geologica Bavarica 99: 103-117.
Further reading
edit- (in Czech) Kroupa O. (1993). "Zpráva o znovuobjevení holotypu Gastrocopta moravica (Petrbok, 1950)(sic!) (Gastropoda, Vertiginidae). [Report about the re-discovery of Gastrocopta moravica holotype]". Zemní (zemný) plyn a nafta 38(4): 257-259.