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<mods:titleid="255A7DDA97D2827BF9C344C735FBA5A1">The Early Pleistocene freshwater mollusks of the Denizli Basin (Turkey): a new long-lived lake fauna at the crossroads of Pontocaspian and Aegean-Anatolian realms</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="EFA96F04E6C3B397730DF7F51B5A7820">SNSB - Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology, Richard-Wagner-Strasse 10, 80333 Munich, Germany & Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, Netherlands</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="FEEC25512A606C8BD7FE4B51971A2F1E">Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, Netherlands & Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Princetonlaan 8 a, 3584 CB Utrecht, Netherlands</mods:affiliation>
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concerning the elongate, smooth shell with adpressed whorls, lanceolate aperture with thickened inner lip and the slight concavity between base of the last whorl and base of the aperture (
<bibRefCitationid="30D9A44C74A1245215A30F37518F7CC8"author="Welter-Schultes, FW"journalOrPublisher="Planet Poster Editions, Goettingen"pageId="0"pageNumber="53"refId="B170"refString="Welter-Schultes, FW, 2012. European non-marine molluscs, a guide for species identification. Planet Poster Editions, Goettingen"title="European non-marine molluscs, a guide for species identification."year="2012">Welter-Schultes 2012</bibRefCitation>
;
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). Even the color pattern, consisting of dissected zigzag lines to a chess-like arrangement of orange spots, and the corroded apex are typical of the modern species.
Stefanescu, 1896 from the Dacian Basin (Romania) (
<bibRefCitationid="411AF0DECE863ACAD64561CACDBF1CED"author="Stefanescu, S"journalOrPublisher="Paleontologique"pageId="0"pageNumber="53"pagination="1 - 147"refId="B147"refString="Stefanescu, S, 1896. Etudes sur les Terrains tertiaires de Roumanie. Contribution a l'etude des faunes sarmatique, pontique et levantine. Memoirs de la Societe Geologique de France, Memoir 15. Paleontologique 6: 1 - 147"title="Etudes sur les Terrains tertiaires de Roumanie. Contribution a l'etude des faunes sarmatique, pontique et levantine. Memoirs de la Societe Geologique de France, Memoir 15."volume="6"year="1896">Stefanescu 1896</bibRefCitation>
;
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). It might well be that both species range within the morphological variability of
<bibRefCitationid="13ABC3325D3D221B2315425F85D97A7A"author="Taner, G"journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of Mineral Research and Exploration Institute of Turkey (MTA)"pageId="0"pageNumber="53"pagination="89 - 126"refId="B148"refString="Taner, G, 1974a. Denizli boelgesi Neojeninin paleontolojik ve stratigrafik etuedue. Bulletin of Mineral Research and Exploration Institute of Turkey (MTA) 82: 89 - 126"title="Denizli boelgesi Neojeninin paleontolojik ve stratigrafik etuedue."volume="82"year="1974 a">Taner (1974a)</bibRefCitation>
Today in central to southeastern Europe (western Black Sea region to Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, and Slovenia) and northwestern Anatolia (
<bibRefCitationid="48642CC19E2394D6A96FC1A243EF78E5"author="Welter-Schultes, FW"journalOrPublisher="Planet Poster Editions, Goettingen"pageId="0"pageNumber="53"refId="B170"refString="Welter-Schultes, FW, 2012. European non-marine molluscs, a guide for species identification. Planet Poster Editions, Goettingen"title="European non-marine molluscs, a guide for species identification."year="2012">Welter-Schultes 2012</bibRefCitation>
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). Also found in Pleistocene strata of the North Caspian Basin (
<bibRefCitationid="A99AE00AB9DA548090DB794727A8AD81"DOI="https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.770.25365"author="Neubauer, TA"journalOrPublisher="ZooKeys"pageId="0"pageNumber="53"pagination="43 - 103"refId="B91"refString="Neubauer, TA, van de Velde, S, Yanina, T, Wesselingh, FP, 2018. A late Pleistocene gastropod fauna from the northern Caspian Sea with implications for Pontocaspian gastropod taxonomy. ZooKeys 770: 43 - 103, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.770.25365"title="A late Pleistocene gastropod fauna from the northern Caspian Sea with implications for Pontocaspian gastropod taxonomy."url="https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.770.25365"volume="770"year="2018">Neubauer et al. 2018</bibRefCitation>
