Alvania veliscensis
Shell of Alvania veliscensis (holotype)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	†A. veliscensis
Binomial name
†Alvania veliscensis Schwartz von Mohrenstern, 1867

Alvania veliscensis is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. ^[1]

Contents

• Description
• Distribution
• References
• External links

Description

The length of the shell attains 3 mm, its diameter 1.6 mm.

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Distribution

Fossils of this species were in Mid Miocene strata in Wieliczka, Poland.

References

• Kowalke, T.; Harzhauser, M. (2004). Early ontogeny and palaeoecology of the Mid-Miocene rissoid gastropods of the Central Paratethys. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 49(1): 111–134.

External links

• Reuss, A. E. (1867). Die fossile Fauna der Steinsalzablagerungen von Wieliczka in Galizien. Sitzungsberichte der mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 55(1): 17-182, pls. 1-8.

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