Odostomiinae Pelseneer 1928
Odostomiinae indet. (Fig. 13H 1-H 3) MATERIAL AND DIMENSIONS. — Maximum height 2.2 mm, width 1.4 mm. — RGM.1365098 (10), leg. AWJ; RGM.1365199 (1), leg. AWJ; RGM.794508 (c. 250), leg. AWJ; RGM.961907 (1), leg. AWJ. SPECIES CHARACTERISATION. — Thick, smooth, ovate shell. Protoconch heterostrophic. Two teleoconch whorls separated by a deep suture. Pyriform aperture with small fold deep within columella. REMARKS This species is unusual in being extremely small and thickshelled. The protoconch is clearly heterostrophic and there is a small columellar fold deep within the aperture seen only in tangential view. We are unsure where to place this species and leave it in open nomenclature. DISTRIBUTION. — Lower Pleistocene: Atlantic, Selsoif (this paper).
Institutions
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center (NL)
- Utrecht University (NL)
- Université de Rennes (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2025-02-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14850475
- Primary Topic
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Type
- article
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