''Alvania partimcancellata'' is an extinct

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of minute

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, a marine

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in the

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.MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania partimcancellata Harmer, 1920 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=955628 on 2024-02-07

Description

The length of the shell is , and its diameter is . (Original description) The minute shell is ovate. It contains 5 slightly convex whorls. They are regularly diminishing in size upwards, the

body whorl The body whorl is part of the morphology (biology), morphology of the gastropod shell, shell in those gastropod mollusks that possess a coiled shell. The term is also sometimes used in a similar way to describe the shell of a cephalopod mollusk ...

much the largest. The spire measures about one-third the total length. They are ornamented by numerous longitudinal ribs, disappearing towards the periphery against a series of spiral ridges which continue to the base of the shell, with a single line near the suture. The suture is slightly channelled. The aperture is oval.Harmer F. W. (1920-1925). The Pliocene Mollusca of Great Britain, being supplementary to S.V. Wood's monograph of the Crag Mollusca. Vol. 2. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society. 72(344): 485-652, pl. 45-52 (part 1, December 1920); 73(346): 653-704, pl. 53-56 (part 2, July 1921); 75(352): 705-856, pl. 57-64 (part 3, December 1923); 76(354): i-xiv, 857-900, pl. 65 (part 4, January 1925)
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Distribution

Fossils of this species were found in late

Pliocene The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch (geology), epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.33 to 2.58St. Erth, Cornwall, Great Britain.

References

* Gürs, K & F. Weinbrecht. (2001). Die Gattung Alvania (Gastropoda, Rissoidae) im norddeutschen Miozän. Meyniana. 53: 75–88.

External links

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
{{Taxonbar, from=Q106109035 Gastropods described in 1886 partimcancellata