Anazola major (Bellardi, 1882)

Distribution: Miocene. France. Manthelans, Faluns de la Touraine (Ivolas & Peyrot, 1900);. Aquitaine Basin: Pessac and Cestas, Gironde [Burdigalien], Saubrigues, Landes [Middle Miocene?] (Lozouet & Gourgues, 1995). Italy. Badenian. Hungary, Turkey.

A Miocene species originally described from Italy but also known from France (Aquitaine Basin, Loire Basin).

RV 3052a. France, Gironde, Mérignac (without possible precision of outcrop) [Miocene, probably Early Burdigalian]. Scale bar is 1 cm.

It is very similar to the extant West-African Anazola acuminata (Lamarck, 1811), of which it may be the precursor.