Gastrocopta moravica

Gastrocopta moravica Temporal range: Pliocene–Lower Pleistocene [1] [2] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Fossil shell of Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta from a Viernheim research borehole. Scale bar is 1 mm.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Gastrocoptidae
Genus:	Gastrocopta
Species:	G. moravica
Binomial name
Gastrocopta moravica (Petrbok, 1959) [3]
Synonyms [1]
Vertigo moravica Petrbok, 1959

Gastrocopta moravica is a fossil species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Gastrocoptidae.

This species is known from the Upper Pliocene to the Early Pleistocene. ^[1] Gastrocopta moravica (together with Gastrocopta serotina ) is chronostratigraphically significant as an index fossil for the Late Tiglian (= Gelasian, within the Early Pleistocene). ^[2]

Subspecies

• Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta (Krolopp, 1979) - the shell is less conical than the nominate form. ^[2] The intraparietal tooth of the aperture is reduced to a thickening at one point. ^[2]

Distribution

The type locality of Gastrocopta moravica is a cave near Hlubné near Ochoz u Brna, Moravský Kras, the Czech Republic. ^[1]

Records of this species include the Czech Republic, Hungary (locality Rábaszentandrás), Germany and France (locality Cessey-sur-Tille). ^{[2] [1]}

Krolopp (1979) ^[4] found Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta together with Gastrocopta serotina in Hungary near Szabádhidvég. ^[2] Rähle (1995) ^[5] found Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta in argillaceous high flood deposits in Uhlenberg (Iller-Lech Plate, Bavarian Swabia). ^[2] Wedel (2008) ^[2] found Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta in Viernheim research borehole, Germany. ^[2]

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference ^[2]

1. (in Czech) Kovanda J. (2005). "Nová lokalita vzácného plŽže Gastrocopta theeli (West.) od Pátku u Loun. [A new locality of a rare Gastropod Gastrocopta theeli (West.) from Pátek near Louny]". Zprávy o geologických výzkumech v roce 2004: 59-61. PDF, table 6.
2. Wedel J. (2008). "Pleistocene molluscs from research boreholes in the Heidelberg Basin". E&G – Quaternary Science Journal57(3-4): 382-402. doi: 10.3285/eg.57.3-4.6 .
3. (in Czech) Petrbok J. (1959). "K seznání pleistocénních měkkýšů Moravy". Čas. Mineral. Geol.4(1): 96-–98.
4. (in Hungarian) Krolopp E. (1979). "A magyarországi pleisztocén képződmények Gastrocopta fajai. Die Gastrocopta- Arten der pleistozänen Bildungen Ungarns". Magyar Állami Főldtani Intézet Ĕvi Jelentése az 1977, Ĕvről: 290-312.
5. (in German) Rähle W. (1995). "Altpleistozäne Molluskenfauna aus den Zusamplattenschottern and ihrer Flussmergeldecke vom Uhlenberg and Lauterbrunn (Iller-Lech-Platte, Bayerisch Schwaben)!. Geologica Bavarica99: 103-117.

Further reading

• (in Czech) Kroupa O. (1993). "Zpráva o znovuobjevení holotypu Gastrocopta moravica (Petrbok, 1950)(sic!) (Gastropoda, Vertiginidae). [Report about the re-discovery of Gastrocopta moravica holotype]". Zemní (zemný) plyn a nafta38(4): 257-259.