MolluscaBase taxon details
Mesalia allentonensis (Aldrich, 1894) †
1784540 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1784540)
accepted
Species
Mesalia pumila var. allentonensis (Aldrich, 1894) † · unaccepted > superseded rank
Turritella allentonensis Aldrich, 1984 † · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
(of Turritella allentonensis Aldrich, 1984 †) Aldrich, T. H. (1894). Paleontology of the Eocene of Alabama - The (Midway) Clayton Tertiary section and its fossils, in Smith, E.A., Johnson, L.C., Langdon, D.W. (eds). Report on the geology of the coastal plain of Alabama. <em>Alabama Geological Survey.</em> 232-248.
page(s): p. 246-247, n. 17, pl. 13, figs 4a, 6. [details]
page(s): p. 246-247, n. 17, pl. 13, figs 4a, 6. [details]
Type locality contained in Alabama
type locality contained in Alabama [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mesalia allentonensis (Aldrich, 1894) †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1784540 on 2025-09-11
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(of Turritella allentonensis Aldrich, 1984 †) Aldrich, T. H. (1894). Paleontology of the Eocene of Alabama - The (Midway) Clayton Tertiary section and its fossils, in Smith, E.A., Johnson, L.C., Langdon, D.W. (eds). Report on the geology of the coastal plain of Alabama. <em>Alabama Geological Survey.</em> 232-248.
page(s): p. 246-247, n. 17, pl. 13, figs 4a, 6. [details]
new combination reference Squires, R. L. & Saul, L. R. (2007). Paleocene pareorine turritellid gastropods from the Pacific slope of North America. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 121(1):1-16., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35185496
page(s): p. 5. [details]
page(s): p. 246-247, n. 17, pl. 13, figs 4a, 6. [details]
new combination reference Squires, R. L. & Saul, L. R. (2007). Paleocene pareorine turritellid gastropods from the Pacific slope of North America. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 121(1):1-16., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35185496
page(s): p. 5. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
