Alvania partimcancellata


Alvania partimcancellata is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.

Description

The length of the shell is, and its diameter is.
The minute shell is ovate. It contains 5 slightly convex whorls. They are regularly diminishing in size upwards, the body whorl much the largest. The spire measures about one-third the total length. They are ornamented by numerous longitudinal ribs, disappearing towards the periphery against a series of spiral ridges which continue to the base of the shell, with a single line near the suture. The suture is slightly channelled. The aperture is oval.

Distribution

Fossils of this species were found in late Pliocene strata at St. Erth, Cornwall, Great Britain.