Class Gastropoda

Family Cassidae Latreille, 1825

Genus Galeodea Link, 1807

Species Galeodea echinophora (Linnaeus, 1758)

Galeodea echinophora (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mollusca – Gastropoda – Cassidae) is the Type Taxon for the genus Galeodea Link, 1807. Rare in tuscan Pliocene, more common in the Castellarquato area (Piacenza (Emilia – Romagna).

Galeodea echinophora (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mollusca – Gastropoda – Cassidae) è la specie tipo per il genere Galeodea Link, 1807.

The first specimen that we present to you from the family Cassidae Latreille, 1825, widespread but not very common, especially with intact specimens, in Pliocene clays and sands.

Original description / Descrizione originale:

Buccinum echinophorum  –  381. B. testa cingulis quator tubercolosis, cauda prominente.

Bonan. recr. 3. t. 19, 18.

Rumph. mus. t. 27. f. I

Argenv. conch. t. 20. f. P.

Habitat in M. Mediterraneo.

Page 735 of Linnaeus C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.

Distribution

From Miocene to Present-day (see Chirli, 2008, p. 83). (Paratethys; for complete distribution see LANDAU et al. [2004, p. 45]):(Landau et al., 2009, p. 67).

Bibliographic references and some more common synonyms

1974 Galeodea echinophora (Linnaeus) – Malatesta, p. 255, pl. 19, fig. 9.

2004 Galeodea echinophora – Landau et al., p. 43, pl. 2, Fig. 2 (cum syn.).

2008 Galeodea echinophora (Linné) – Chirli, p. 80, pls 30-31, figs 9-16, 1-2.

2009 Galeodea echinophora – Landau et al., p. 66, pl. 3, figs 1-2.

References

Chirli C., 2008. Malacofauna Pliocenica Toscana. Vol. 6. Neotaenioglossa. Carlo Chirli Ed., Tavarnelle, pp. 128, 38 pls.

Landau B. M., Beu A. & Marquet R. (2004). The Early Pliocene Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Estepona, southern Spain. Part 5 Tonnoidea, Ficoidea. – Palaeontos, 5: 35-102

Landau B. M., Harzhauser M. & Beu A. (2009). A Revision of the Tonnoidea (Caenogastropoda, Gastropoda) from the Miocene Paratethys and their Palaeobiogeographic Implications. Jahrbuch der  Geologischen Bundesanstalt, 149 (1): 61-109.

Linnaeus C., 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.

Malatesta A., 1974. Malacofauna Pliocenica Umbra. Memorie per servire alla descrizione della Carta geologica d’Italia, 13, 498 pp., 32 pls. Tipografia U. Pinto, Roma.

We thank our friend Massimo Cresti for the execution and use of the photos.