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  • Amalda glandiformis (Lamarck, 1810)


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    FranzBernhard

    Taxonomy

    Olive snail

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Mollusca
    Class: Gastropoda
    Order: Neogastropoda
    Family: Olividae
    Genus: Amalda
    Species: Amalda glandiformis
    Author Citation Lamarck (1810)

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Cenozoic
    Period: Neogene
    Sub Period: None
    Epoch: Miocene
    International Age: Langhian

    Stratigraphy

    unknown formation
    Florianer Schichten

    Provenance

    Collector: Franz Bernhard
    Date Collected: 02/11/2018
    Acquired by: Field Collection

    Dimensions

    Height: 32 mm

    Location

    Höllerkogel Hill
    St. Josef
    Styria
    Austria

    Comments

    Two views of an olive snail Amalda glandiformis. Exact locality is Höllerkogel-18 in my own documentation. It is a tiny outcrop (about 1-2 square meters) in a densely wooded, very steep area southwest of St. Josef, Styria, Austria. This small outcrop, composed of a medium grained, quartz-rich, somewhat limonitic sand yielded, from November 2016 to May 2018, at least 80 species of gastropods and bivalves and is far from exhausted. Most of the fossils are characterized by a partial limonitic staining and usually a very good preservation. The species A. glandiformis is among the most abundant in this outcrop.

     

    The sediments in the area belong to the "Florianer Schichten", which are part of the western Styrian basin at the eastern margin of the Alps. The "Florianer Schichten" are about 15 Ma old (Langhian, or "Badenian" in Paratethys stratigraphic terms).




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    sixgill pete

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    Excellent photos showing great detail. Thanks for adding this.

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    FranzBernhard

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    Thank you, sixgill pete!

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