Trochus spiniger Sowerby in Sedgwick & Murchison, 1832

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 258-259

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.602.8136

publication LSID

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/76E59BB9-3D0E-6CC9-F47E-1A1768910A80

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scientific name

Trochus spiniger Sowerby in Sedgwick & Murchison, 1832
status

 

Trochus spiniger Sowerby in Sedgwick & Murchison, 1832 View in CoL

Original source.

Sedgwick and Murchison 1832: 418, pl. 38, fig. 15.

Type horizon.

Late Cretaceous.

Type locality.

“Gosau”, Austria.

Types.

Holotype (?) stored in the collection of the British Museum, coll. no. G 17908 ( Kollmann 1984: 58).

Remarks.

Kollmann (1984: 58) classified the species in the melanopsid genus Megalonoda , which was there described as new.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Sorbeoconcha

Family

Melanopsidae

Genus

Trochus