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Gastrocopta moravica

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Extinct species of gastropod

Gastrocopta moravica
Temporal range: Pliocene–Lower Pleistocene 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 Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Gastrocoptidae
Genus: Gastrocopta
Species: G. moravica
Binomial name
Gastrocopta moravica
(Petrbok, 1959)
Synonyms

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. Gastrocopta moravica (together with Gastrocopta serotina) is chronostratigraphically significant as an index fossil for the Late Tiglian (= Gelasian, within the Early Pleistocene).

Subspecies

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

Distribution

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

Records of this species include the Czech Republic, Hungary (locality Rábaszentandrás), Germany and France (locality Cessey-sur-Tille).

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

References

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  1. ^ (in Czech) Kovanda J. (2005). "Nová lokalita vzácného plŽže Gastrocopta theeli (West.) od Pátku u Loun. ". 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 Journal 57(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 Bavarica 99: 103-117.

Further reading

  • (in Czech) Kroupa O. (1993). "Zpráva o znovuobjevení holotypu Gastrocopta moravica (Petrbok, 1950)(sic!) (Gastropoda, Vertiginidae). ". Zemní (zemný) plyn a nafta 38(4): 257-259.
Taxon identifiers
Gastrocopta moravica
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