Odostomia milium (Lea, 1846), new comb.
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Odostomia milium (Lea, 1846), new comb. |
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Odostomia milium (Lea, 1846), new comb. Figure 6S
Acteon milium Lea, 1846: 257, pl. 36, fig. 61.
Type locality.
Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, USA. Type stratum: Yorktown Formation. Age: Late Miocene to Middle Pliocene.
Type material.
Syntypes, ANSP IP1520, 1 shell, ANSP IP79385, 1 shell (lost, not found in the vial).
Taxonomical reassessment.
This species is better classified in the genus Odostomia due to the following conchological features ( Robba 2013): verall ovate-conical shell with moderately convex whorls, suture with a blunt subsutural margin, slit-like umbilicus, and prominent columellar fold.
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