Microcolpia wuesti

Microcolpia wuesti
Temporal range: Early Pleistocene
Shell of Microcolpia wuesti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: incertae sedis
Family: Melanopsidae
Genus: Microcolpia
Species:
†M. wuesti
Binomial name
†Microcolpia wuesti
(Meijer, 1990)
Synonyms
  • †Fagotia wuesti Meijer, 1990

Microcolpia wuesti is an extinct species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Melanopsidae. Originally described as Fagotia wuesti, it was later revised as a member of Microcolpia.

Shells of Microcolpia wuesti

References

  1. ↑ KHURSEVICH, Galina, et al. "Palaeoenvironmental and climatic changes during the early Pleistocene recorded in the lacustrine-boggyfluvial sediments at Komorniki, NE Poland." Polish Geological Institute Special Papers 16 (2005): 35-44.
  2. ↑ Meijer, T., and R. C. Preece. "Malacological evidence relating to the stratigraphical position of the Cromerian." The Early Middle Pleistocene in Europe. Balkema, Rotterdam (1996): 53-82.
  3. ↑ "Microcolpia wuesti". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species.