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First record of the Caribbean genus Cittarium (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae) from the Oligocene of Europe and its paleobiogeographic implications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Pierre Lozouet
Pierre Lozouet*
Affiliation:
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Lab. de B.I.M.M., 55 rue de Buffon, 75005 Paris, France,
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The West Indian Top-shell, Cittarium pica (Linnaeus, 1758), is a very classic and common species of the Caribbean faunal province. Until now the only known fossil occurrence of Cittarium pica, and of the genus Cittarium, is from Pleistocene deposits restricted to the Caribbean province (Clench and Abbott, 1943). Despite the turbiniform shell, the monotypic genus Cittarium belongs to the family Trochidae and was assigned to the tribe Gibbilini Stoliczka, 1868 by Hickman and McLean (1990). This paper reports a new species of Cittarium and the only record outside the Caribbean province. More than twenty million years separate the single modern species of Cittarium and the new fossil species. All material collected is deposited in Museum national d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN).

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Paleontological Notes
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 76 , Issue 4 , July 2002 , pp. 767 - 770
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society

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