Alvania acuticarinata

Alvania acuticarinata is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.^[1]

Alvania acuticarinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	†A. acuticarinata
Binomial name
†Alvania acuticarinata Landau, Ceulemans & Van Dingenen, 2018
Synonyms
† Delphinula carinata Millet, 1854 (invalid: junior homonym of Delphinula carinata Woodward, 1833; Alvania acuticarinata is a replacement name)

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in upper Miocene strata in northwestern France.