original description
Melleville, M. (1843). Mémoire sur les sables tertiaires inférieurs du bassin de Paris, avec la description de 78 espèces de coquilles fossiles inédites de ce terrain. <em>Annales des Sciences Géologiques.</em> 2(1-2): 1-29, 77-120, 10 pls., available online at https://books.google.at/books?id=rzF9m0OG85AC&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false [details]
basis of record
ICZN. (2005). Proposed conservation of the specific <i>Melania curvicostata</i> Reeve, 1861 and <i>Goniobasis paupercula</i> Lea, 1862 (currently <i>Elimia curvicostata</i> and <i>E. paupercula</i>) (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pleuroceridae): case closed. (Case 3232; see BZN 60: 109-112, 300-302; 61: 106-108). <em>The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature.</em> 62: 122-123., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44266117#page/66/mode/1up
page(s): 122 [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Ciry-Salsogne, Aisne, France; Sparnacian, early Ypresian, early Eocene [details]