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Alvania craticula

species of molluscs

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ106107825 ↗
Source-derived summary

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

Distribution

Fossils were found in the Danian strata (Paleocene) near Mons, Belgium.

References

Kowalke, T. (2002). Systematic revision of Palaeocene brackish water Gastropoda from Mons, Belgium, based on their early ontogenetic shells. Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique Sciences de la Terre. 72: 111–134.

External links

Briart, A. & Cornet, F. L. (1887). Description des fossiles du Calcaire grossier de Mons. Gastéropodes. 4e partie.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Alvania craticula” is species of molluscs. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Alvania, craticula and species, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 1887—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Alvania, craticula and species is the immediate research focus.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q106107825. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2002 and 1887.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alvania craticula” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.