Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
Alternative spelling: Rissoa (Alvania)
Synonyms: Acinulus Seguenza 1903, Flemellia Nordsieck 1972, Lanciella Nordsieck 1972
Parent taxon: Rissoidae according to M. Harzhauser 2002
See also Global Biodiversity Information Facility 2015, Ladd 1966, Lozouet 1998, Marquet 1997, Ponder and Lindberg 1997, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001, Vera-Peláez et al. 2004, Weisbord 1962 and Wienrich 2001
Sister taxa: Actonia, Ampulospira luda, Benthonella, Boreocingula, Buvignieria, Folinia, Hudlestoniella, Lapsigyrus, Merelina, Microstelma, Mohrensterniinae, Ottoina, Ovirissoa, Powellisetia, Pusillina, Rissoa, Rissocerithium, Rissoina, Rissoinae, Rissoininae, Setia, Simulamerelina, Stosicia, Striatestea, Thierachella, Tournoueria, Turboella, Voorwindia, Zebina, Zebinostoma
Subtaxa: Alvania (Alcidiella) Alvania (Alvania) Alvania (Arsenia) Alvania (Galeodina) Alvania (Linemera) Alvania (Turbona) Alvania andraldensis Alvania antwerpiensis Alvania argillensis Alvania aturensis Alvania boucherti Alvania cancellata Alvania cimicoides Alvania cioppii Alvania discazalorum Alvania europea Alvania falsimerelina Alvania foraminata Alvania fossilis Alvania granosa Alvania hauniensis Alvania hortensis Alvania lettana Alvania mighelsi Alvania oceani Alvania pagodula Alvania parazosta Alvania pedroana Alvania riparia Alvania sanctipaulensis Alvania scrobiculata Alvania stephanensis Alvania sublagouardensis Alvania veleronis Alvania vinosula Alvania virodunensis Alvania wyvillethomsoni
Type: Alvania europea
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (5 collections), Costa Rica (2), Ecuador (2), France (2), Greenland (4), Italy (6), Morocco (2), Panama (1), Portugal (13), South Africa (3), Spain (3), United States (10: Alaska, California), Venezuela (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (2: California)
• Pliocene of Belgium (2), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (1), Italy (7), Panama (7), United States (1: California), Venezuela (6)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Austria (12), Belgium (3), France (8), Germany (22), Hungary (1), Italy (2), Morocco (3), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (2), Palau (1), Panama (3), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (2), Slovakia (3), Spain (1), Turkey (2), Ukraine (2)
• Oligocene of Denmark (2), France (4), Germany (1), the Netherlands (1)
• Eocene of France (1), Germany (1), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (2: California, Washington)
• Paleocene of Belgium (1), Denmark (5), Greenland (1), Poland (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Cretaceous of United States (7: Mississippi)
Total: 185 collections including 344 occurrences
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