Gastrocopta moravica


Gastrocopta moravica is a fossil species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Gastrocoptidae.
This species is known from the Upper Pliocene to the Early Pleistocene. Gastrocopta moravica is chronostratigraphically significant as an index fossil for the Late Tiglian.

Subspecies

Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta - the shell is less conical than the nominate form. The intraparietal tooth of the aperture is reduced to a thickening at one point.

Distribution

The type locality of Gastrocopta moravica is a cave near Hlubné near Ochoz u Brna, Moravský Kras, the Czech Republic.
Records of this species include the Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany and France.
Krolopp found Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta together with Gastrocopta serotina in Hungary near Szabádhidvég. Rähle found Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta in argillaceous high flood deposits in Uhlenberg. Wedel found Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta in Viernheim research borehole, Germany.