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 concentrica, Melania obovata, Melania herklotsi, Melania inquinata, Melania longissima, Melania bullia, Melania claibornensis, Melania abbreviata, Melania marginata, Melania nitida, Melania fettkei, Melania buccinalis, Melania taylori, Melania triticea, Melania partschii, Melania strigillata, Melania dunkeri, Melania multistriata, Melania texata, Melania blainvillii, Melania polita, Melania plicata, Melania schlotheimii, Melania hunteri, Melania miikensis, Melania plieningeri, Melania semistriata, Melania decussata, Melania plicatula, Melania semiplicata, Melania clavula, Melania formosa, Melania vaderensis, Melania acutestriata, Melania alberti, Melania tenuis, Melania hoernesi, Melania laevigata, Melania tenuiplica, Melania packardi, Melania dubia, Melania hordacea, Melania canicularis

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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