Stromboidea

• Rimellidae
  • Rimella
    • Rimella fissurella (Linnaeus, 1767)

Original Description of Strombus fissurella by Linnaeus, 1767 cited after Dodge, 1956:

• "S. testa in labro continuato in carinam fissam longitudinalem... Testa magnitudine et statura Turbinis Clathri, alba: anfractus costis carinatis, excepto maximo, subtus laevi. Apertura oblongiuscula. Labrum exterius parum dilatatum; interius adnatam apertura: ex his labris excurrit per latus testae in carinam fissam longitudinalem, apice recurvatam supra testae verticem. Cauda brevis, recta, sinu parum distincta a labro."

History and Synonymy

1793

Strombus fissurella in Coquebert & Brongniart, 1793, fig.3

1811

Rostellaria fissurella in Perry, 1811, pl. 11, fig. 4

1817

Rostellaire fissurelle (Rostellaria fissurella, Lamk.) in Cuvier, 1817(?) pl. 61bis, 4,4a

1847

Rostellaria fissurella in Berge, 1847, pl. 37, fig. 8

1904

Rimella fissurella in Cossmann, 1904, pl. III, fig. 15, 16

1963

Glibert, 1963: Rimella fissurella cuisensis

2014

• 1-7. Formation du canal anal sur des coquilles de Rimella fissurella (Linnaeus, 1767)
• 1-6. Bartonian, middle Eocene; Les Limons, Seine-et-Marne Department, France
• 1. Coll. MNHN.F.A51101; Ex-coll. Pacaud
• 2. Coll. MNHN.F.A51102; Ex-coll. Pacaud
• 3. Coll. MNHN.F.A51103; Ex-coll. Pacaud
• 4. Coll. MNHN.F.A51104; Ex-coll. Pacaud
• 5. Coll. MNHN.F.A51105; Ex-coll. Pacaud
• 6. Coll. MNHN.F.A51106; Ex-coll. Pacaud
• 7. Lutetian, Middle Eocene; Parnes, Oise Department, France; Coll. MNHN.F.A51107; Ex-coll. Pacaud
• 8a-b. Figured specimens by Coquebert de Montbret & Brongniart (1793); Lutetian, middle Eocene; Thiverval-Grignon, Yvelines Department, France; Coll. MNHN.F.A25526; Coll. Brongniart; Scale = 10 mm.
• Pacaud, 2014, pl. 3

2015

Pacaud & Pons, 2015, pl. 1

• Fig. 1a-b. Rimella fissurella fissurella (Linnaeus, 1767); Auversian, Bartonian, middle Eocene; Baron, Oise Department, France; Coll. MNHN.F.A53148; Ex-coll. Pacaud; Hauteur : 32,0 mm.
• Fig. 2a-b. Rimella fissurella fissurella (Linnaeus, 1767); Auversian, Bartonian, middle Eocene; Baron, Oise Department, France; Coll. MNHN.F.A53149; Ex-coll. Pacaud; Hauteur : 34,8 mm.
• Fig. 3a-b. Rimella fissurella fissurella (Linnaeus, 1767); Auversian, Bartonian, middle Eocene; Bézu-le-Guéry, Aisne Department, France; Coll. MNHN.F.A53150; Ex-coll. Faullummel; Hauteur : 46,5 mm.
• Fig. 4a-b. Rimella fissurella fissurella (Linnaeus, 1767); middle Lutetian, middle Eocene; Damery, Marne Department, France; Coll. MNHN.F.A53151; Ex-coll. Pacaud; Hauteur : 22,0 mm.
• Fig. 5a-b. Rimella fissurella fissurella (Linnaeus, 1767); middle Lutetian, middle Eocene; Bois du But, Fontenay-en-Vexin, Eure Department, France; Coll. MNHN.F.A53152; Ex-coll. Pacaud; Hauteur : 42,5 mm.
• Fig. 6a-b. Rimella fissurella fissurella (Linnaeus, 1767); middle Lutetian, middle Eocene; Bois du But, Fontenay-en-Vexin, Eure Department, France; Coll. MNHN.F.A53153; Ex-coll. Pacaud; Hauteur : 44,0 mm.

Rimella fissurella cuisensis Glibert, 1963, in Pacaud & Pons, 2015, pl. 2, figs. 1, 2

• 1 a, b: Cuisian, Ypresian, lower Eocene; Saint-Gobain (Aisne); MNHN.F.A53154 (leg. Pacaud); 19,8 mm.
• 2 a, b: Cuisian, Ypresian, lower Eocene; Saint-Gobain (Aisne); MNHN.F.A53155 (leg. Pacaud); 21,0 mm

Specimens from institutional collections:

Rimella fissurella fissurella (Linnaeus, 1767); giant unnamed form; Lutetian, middle Eocene; Thiverval-Grignon, Yvelines Department, France; 40,4 mm; Coll. ZMA; Photo Ron Voskuil

Specimens from private collections:

Rimella fissurella cuisensis Glibert, 1963; Cuisian, lower Eocene; Creil, Oise Department, France; Coll. Ulrich Wieneke; photo Manfred Heising

Rimella fissurella (Linnaeus, 1767); middle Lutetian, middle Eocene; Fontenay-en-Vexin, Eure Department, France; 38 mm; Coll. Jean-Francois Lhomme

Rimella fissurella (Linnaeus, 1767); Auversian, Bartonian, middle Eocene; Seine & Marne Department, France; 38 mm; Coll. Jean-Francois Lhomme

Rimella fissurella (Linnaeus, 1767); Bracklesham Group (formerly Bracklesham Beds), middle Eocene; New Forest, Southampton, Hampshire County, South East Region, England; 23 mm; Photo & Copyright Alan Morton

Rimella cf. fissurella (Linnaeus, 1767); Eocene; Arom?, Ukraine; Coll. Ulrich Wieneke, photo Manfred Heising

Rimella fissurella (Linnaeus, 1767); freak; Lutetian, middle Eocene; Thiverval-Grignon, Yvelines Department, France; 13 mm; Coll. Daniel Ledon

References

• Glibert, 1963
• Pacaud, J.M. 2014. Sur un manuscrit inédit d’Antoine Romain Coquebert de Montbret (1791) : « Observations sur quelques Coquilles du genre des Strombes … » et description d’une espèce nouvelle du genre Ectinochilus (Gastropoda : Rostellariidae) - On an Unpublished manuscript of Antoine Romain Coquebert de Montbret (1791) : « Observations sur quelques Coquilles du genre des Strombes … » and description of a new species of the genus Ectinochilus (Gastropoda : Rostellariidae); Bulletin d’Information des Géologues du Bassin de Paris 07/2014; 51(2):4-24.
• Pacaud J.-M. & †Pons J. 2015. Le genre Rimella (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Rostellariidae) à l’Éocène du bassin de Paris. Description d’une nouvelle espèce du Lutétien inférieur (Éocène moyen). Cossmanniana 17: 90-112, fig. 1-2, pl. 1-3.