Alvania critica

Alvania critica is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 2.5 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm.

Distribution

Fossils were found in the Miocene strata in Central Europe, Greece and Turkey.

References

• Landau, B. M., Harzhauser, M., Ä°slamoğlu, Y. & da Silva, C. M. (2013). Systematics and palaeobiogeography of the gastropods of the middle Miocene (Serravallian) Karaman Basin, Turkey. Cainozoic Research. 11-13: 1–584.

External links

• Boettger, O. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Fauna der mittelmiocänen Schichten von Kostej im Krassó–Szörényer Komitat (Gasteropoden und Anneliden). III. Verhandlungen und Mitteilungen des Siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften zu Hermannstadt. 55 (1905): 101-244. Hermannstadt
• Thivaiou D., Harzhauser M. & Koskeridou E. (2019). Early Miocene gastropods from the Felli section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea, NW Greece). Geodiversitas. 41(8): 323-366.