Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Thiaridae

Full reference: J. B. Lamarck. 1804. Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 4:429-436

Belongs to Melania according to G. P. Deshayes 1825

See also Lamarck 1804

Sister taxa: Thiara (Balanocochlis), Thiara (Plotia), Thiara (Sermyla), Thiara (Setaeara), Thiara scabra, Thiara smartsvillensis, Thiara tjemoroensis, Thiara wheatlandensis, Melania plicata, Melania alberti, Melania hoernesi, Melania blainvillii, Melania inquinata, Melania triticea, Melania dubia, Melania tenuis, Melania bullia, Melania herklotsi, Melania marginata, Melania acutestriata, Melania fettkei, Melania abbreviata, Melania polita, Melania decussata, Melania plieningeri, Melania obovata, Melania dunkeri, Melania semistriata, Melania laevigata, Melania taylori, Melania hordacea, Melania miikensis, Melania hunteri, Melania fragilis, Melania strigillata, Melania clavula, Melania multistriata, Melania longissima, Melania plicatula, Melania vaderensis, Melania nitida, Melania formosa, Melania concentrica, Melania texata, Melania semiplicata, Melania claibornensis, Melania buccinalis, Melania schlotheimii, Melania partschii, Melania tenuiplica, Melania packardi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Grignon (Defrance collection), which is in a Lutetian open shallow subtidal sandstone/sandstone in France

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Grignon (Defrance collection)

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