A fossil Cenozoic monoplacophoran |
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| Authors: | MARCO TAVIANI BRUNO SABELLI FRANCO CANDINI |
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| Institution: | Istituto per la Geologia Marina del CNR, Via Zamboni 65, 1–40127 Bologna, Italy;Museo di Zoologia dell' Universita', Via S. Giacomo 9, 1–40126 Bologna, Italy;15th October, 1989 |
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| Abstract: | Taviani, M., Sabelli, B. & Candini, F. 1990 04 15: A fossil Cenozoic monoplacophoran. Lethaia , Vol. 23 , pp. 213–216. Oslo. ISSN 0024–1164.
A few shells of Micropilina (Mollusca, Monoplacophora) have been found in middle Pleistocene (Sicilian) epibathyal clays at Archi (Reggio Calabria, southern Italy). The species appears conchologically indistinguishable from the Recent Atlantic taxon Micropilina minuta Warén, 1989. This finding represents the first record of a Cenozoic fossil monoplacophoran. |
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