Caecum glabrum ( Montagu, 1803 )

Bouchard, Blanche, Wesselingh, Frank P., Pouwer, Ronald & Landau, Bernard, 2025, The Gelasian gastropod fauna of Selsoif (Manche, France), Geodiversitas 47 (3), pp. 39-91 : 64

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scientific name	Caecum glabrum ( Montagu, 1803 )
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Caecum glabrum ( Montagu, 1803) View in CoL

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Dentalium glabrum Montagu, 1803: 197 View in CoL .

Caecum glabrum View in CoL – Van Dingenen et al. 2016: pl. 11, fig. 5.

For more, see synonymy list in Van Dingenen et al. (2016).

MATERIAL AND DIMENSIONS. — Maximum length 1.1 mm. — RGM.1365099 (52), leg. AWJ ; RGM.1365191 (1), leg. AWJ .

SPECIES CHARACTERISATION. — Small, elongate, smooth shell. Dome-shaped apical septum.

DISTRIBUTION. — Middle Miocene: Loire Basin, France ( Glibert 1949). — Lower Pliocene: Atlantic, NW France ( Van Dingenen et al. 2016); NSB, Coralline Crag, England ( Wood 1848; Harmer 1923). — Upper Pliocene: NSB, Red Crag, England (Harmer 1923); Oorderen Sands, Belgium ( Marquet 1997). — Lower Pleistocene: Atlantic, Selsoif, NW France (this paper); central Mediterranean, Italy ( Cerulli-Irelli 1912). — Pleistocene (indeterminate): Atlantic, British Isles (Harmer 1923); NSB, The Netherlands ( Van Regteren Altena et al. 1955). — Holocene: NSB ( Strand Petersen 2004). Today this species occurs at the Atlantic coasts of Europe from British Isles to the Bay of Biscay ( Fretter & Graham 1978). Mediterranean records are not C. glabrum , but C. subannulatum de Folin, 1870 or C. auriculatum de Folin, 1868 ; Van Aartsen 1977: 11).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Gastropoda
Order	Littorinimorpha
Family	Caecidae
Genus	Caecum