Gastrocopta moravica

Gastrocopta moravica
Temporal range: Pliocene–Lower Pleistocene[1][2]
Fossil shell of Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta from a Viernheim research borehole. Scale bar is 1 mm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Orthurethra

Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Vertiginidae
Subfamily: Gastrocoptinae
Genus: Gastrocopta
Subgenus: Vertigopsis
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 mollusk in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.

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

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. 1 2 3 4 5 (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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Wedel J. (2008). "Pleistocene molluscs from research boreholes in the Heidelberg Basin". E&G – Quaternary Science Journal 57(3-4): 382-402. doi:10.3285/eg.57.3-4.6.
  3. (Czech) Petrbok J. (1959). "K seznání pleistocénních měkkýšů Moravy". Čas. Mineral. Geol. 4(1): 96-–98.
  4. (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. (German) Rähle W. (1995). "Altpleistozäne Molluskenfauna aus den Zusamplattenschottern and ihrer Flussmergeldecke vom Uhlenberg and Lauterbrunn (Iller-Lech-Platte, Bayerisch Schwaben)!. Geologica Bavarica 99: 103-117.

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