Melanopsis pseudosubulata Newton, 1891

Neubauer, Thomas A., 2016, A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea), ZooKeys 602, pp. 1-358 : 227-228

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2E6BB056-38B8-68EC-C35D-E33039FEE2A4

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scientific name

Melanopsis pseudosubulata Newton, 1891
status

 

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Original source.

Newton 1891: 203.

Type horizon.

Bartonian?-Rupelian, late Eocene-early Oligocene.

Type locality.

"Hempstead [...]. Headon Hill; Hordwell. [...] High Cliff", United Kingdom.

Remarks.

Introduced (as " pseudo- subulata ") for a part of Sowerby’s material for Melanopsis fusiformis Sowerby, 1822 ( Sowerby 1821-1823: pl. 332, figs 6-7) as well as for misidentified Melanopsis subulata sensu Forbes, 1856, non Sowerby, 1822.