''Amblyacrum dameriacense'' is an extinct
species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
in the
family Mangeliidae.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Amblyacrum dameriacense (Deshayes, 1865) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1477964 on 2021-07-18]
It was renamed as ''Raphitoma defrancei'' by J. Tucker & Le Renard in 1993
Description
Distribution
Fossils of this extinct marine species were found in
Eocene strata in
France.
References
;Citations
;Bibliography
* Cossmann (M.) & Pissarro (G.), 1913 Iconographie complète des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris, t. 2, p. pl. 46-65
* Le Renard (J.) & Pacaud (J.-M.), 1995 Révision des Mollusques paléogènes du Bassin de Paris. 2 - Liste des références primaires des espèces. Cossmanniana, t. 3, vol. 3, p. 65-132
* Tucker, J.K. & Le Renard, J. (1993) Liste bibliographique des Turridae (Gastropoda, Conacea) du Paléogène de l'Angleterre, de la Belgique et de la France. Cossmanniana, 2(1/2), 1–66.
* Pacaud J.M. (2021). Remarques taxonomiques et nomenclaturales sur les mollusques gastéropodes du Paléogène de France et description d'espèces nouvelles. Partie 3. Conoidea. Xenophora Taxonomy. 31: 41–48.
External links
Deshayes, G. P. (1864-1865). Description des animaux sans vertèbres découverts dans le bassin de Paris pour servir de supplément à la Description des coquilles fossiles des environs de Paris comprenant une revue générale de toutes les espèces actuellement connues. Tome troisiéme. Mollusques céphalés, deuxième partie. Mollusques céphalopodes. 1-667, pls 63-107. Paris, BaillièreDeshayes, G. P. (1824-1837). Description des coquilles fossiles des environs de Paris. Paris, published by the author.*
Mangeliidae
Gastropods described in 1865
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