Aegopinella denudata explained

Aegopinella denudata is an extinct species of small land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Gastrodontidae, the glass snails.

Description

The diameter of the shell attains 14 mm, its height 4.5 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The solid shell is depressed and flat spire and a broad, open umbilicus. It is shiny and shows microscopically small spiral striations. It features 5.5 convex whorls. The sutures are moderately impressed. The wide and elongate-ovoid aperture is depressed-lunate. The body whorl expands rapidly. The peristome is acute, simple, and straight. It exhibits a creeping growth pattern.^[1]

Distribution

Fossils of this extinct species were found in Miocene strata in the Czech Republic

External links

• Babor, J.F. (1897). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der tertiären Binnenconchylienfauna Böhmens. I. Sitzungsberichten der Königlichen Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe. 63: 1-18
• Harzhauser, M.; Neubauer, T.A.; Georgopoulou, E.; Harl, J. (2014). The Early Miocene (Burdigalian) mollusc fauna of the North Bohemian Lake (Most Basin). Bulletin of Geosciences. 89(4): 819-908

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12204240 Reuss, A.E. (1849). Beschreibung der fossilen Ostracoden und Mollusken der tertiären Süsswasserschichten des nördlichen Böhmens (In: Reuss, A.E., Meyer, H.v.). Palaeontographica. 2, 16-42.