Gastrocopta moravica
Extinct species of gastropod
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Gastrocopta moravica is a fossil species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Gastrocoptidae.
| Gastrocopta moravica Temporal range: | |
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| Fossil shell of Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta from a Viernheim research borehole. Scale bar is 1 mm. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Gastrocoptidae |
| Genus: | Gastrocopta |
| Species: | G. moravica |
| Binomial name | |
| Gastrocopta moravica (Petrbok, 1959)[3] | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Vertigo moravica Petrbok, 1959 | |
This species is known from the Upper Pliocene to the Early Pleistocene.[1] Gastrocopta moravica (together with Gastrocopta serotina) is chronostratigraphically significant as an index fossil for the Late Tiglian (= Gelasian, within the Early Pleistocene).[2]
Subspecies
Distribution
The type locality of Gastrocopta moravica is a cave near Hlubné near Ochoz u Brna, Moravský Kras, the Czech Republic.[1]
Records of this species include the Czech Republic, Hungary (locality Rábaszentandrás), Germany and France (locality Cessey-sur-Tille).[2][1]
Krolopp (1979)[4] found Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta together with Gastrocopta serotina in Hungary near Szabádhidvég.[2] Rähle (1995)[5] found Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta in argillaceous high flood deposits in Uhlenberg (Iller-Lech Plate, Bavarian Swabia).[2] Wedel (2008)[2] found Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta in Viernheim research borehole, Germany.[2]