Alvania gourbesvillensis

Alvania gourbesvillensis
Shell of † Alvania gourbesvillensis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	†A. gourbesvillensis
Binomial name
†Alvania gourbesvillensis (Cossmann, 1921)
Synonyms
† Arsenia gourbesvillensisCossmann, 1921 (Arsenia regarded as a junior synonym of Alvania)

Alvania gourbesvillensis is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. ^[1]

Distribution

Fossils of this species were found in Pliocene strata in Lower Normandy, France.

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania gourbesvillensis (Cossmann, 1921) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=991155 on 2024-01-31

• Glibert, M. (1952). Faune malacologique du Miocène de la Belgique. II Gastropodes. Mémoire Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique 121. 1–197; plates I-X.

External links

• Cossmann, M. (1921). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Douzième livraison. Paris: [the author]. 349 pp., plates A-D, 1-6