Pseudomelania is an extinct genus of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelaniidae.

Pseudomelania
Pseudomelania elegantula
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Pseudomelania

Pictet & Campiche, 1862
Type species
Pseudomelania gresslyi Pictet &Campiche, 1862

Species edit

Species within the genus Pseudomelania include:

subgenus Hudlestoniella

  • Pseudomelania (Hudlestoniella) gubleri Delpey, 1941

subgenus Oonia - synonym: Eligmoloxus Cossmann, 1885[1]

  • Oonia incrassata Kittl, 1899[1]
  • Oonia pennina Parona, 1892[1]
  • Oonia subtortilis Münster, 1841[1]
  • Oonia texta Kittl, 1899 [1]
  • Pseudomelania (Oonia) grossouvrei Cossmann, 1899[1]
  • Pseudomelania (Oonia) limneiformis Cossmann, 1885[1]
  • Pseudomelania (Oonia) similis Münster, 1841[1]

subgenus Rhabdoconcha[1]

  • Pseudomelania (Rhabdoconcha) spirastriata Wang, 1977[1]
  • Rhabdoconcha brongniarti Klipstein, 1843[1]
  • Rhabdoconcha schaeferi Kittl, 1894[1]
  • Rhabdoconcha triadica Kittl, 1894[1]

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References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w "†Pseudomelania Pictet and Campiche 1862 (snail)". Fossilworks, accessed 11 June 2016.
  2. ^ a b Szabó J. & Jaitly A. K. (2004). "Contributions to the Jurassic of Kachchh, western India VIII. The gastropod fauna. Part II: Discohelicidae, Neritomorpha, Caenogastropoda". Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 22: 9–26. PDF[permanent dead link].
  3. ^ Ferrari S. M. (2012). "New Early Jurassic gastropods from west-central Patagonia, Argentina". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica in press. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0090.
  • Kiel S. (2003) New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian–Campanian, South Africa); Cretaceous Research 24 (2003) 449–475