Gastrocopta moravica is a fossil species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Gastrocoptidae.
This species is known from the Upper Pliocene to the Early Pleistocene. Gastrocopta moravica (together with Gastrocopta serotina) is chronostratigraphically significant as an index fossil for the Late Tiglian (= Gelasian, within the Early Pleistocene).Wedel J. (2008). "Pleistocene molluscs from research boreholes in the Heidelberg Basin". E&G – Quaternary Science Journal 57(3-4): 382-402. .
Subspecies Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta (Krolopp, 1979) - the shell is less conical than the nominate form. The intraparietal tooth of the aperture is reduced to a thickening at one point.
Distribution The type locality of Gastrocopta moravica is a cave near Hlubné near Ochoz u Brna, Moravský Kras, the Czech Republic.
Records of this species include the Czech Republic, Hungary (locality Rábaszentandrás), Germany and France (locality Cessey-sur-Tille). Kovanda J. (2005). "Nová lokalita vzácného plže Gastrocopta theeli (West.) od Pátku u Loun. [A new locality of a rare Gastropod Gastrocopta theeli (West.) from Pátek near Louny]". Zprávy o geologických výzkumech v roce 2004: 59-61. PDF, table 6.
Krolopp (1979) Krolopp E. (1979). "A magyarországi pleisztocén képződmények Gastrocopta fajai. Die Gastrocopta- Arten der pleistozänen Bildungen Ungarns". Magyar Állami Főldtani Intézet Ĕvi Jelentése az 1977, Ĕvről: 290-312. found Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta together with Gastrocopta serotina in Hungary near Szabádhidvég. Rähle (1995) Rähle W. (1995). "Altpleistozäne Molluskenfauna aus den Zusamplattenschottern and ihrer Flussmergeldecke vom Uhlenberg and Lauterbrunn (Iller-Lech-Platte, Bayerisch Schwaben)!. Geologica Bavarica 99: 103-117. found Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta in argillaceous high flood deposits in Uhlenberg (Iller-Lech Plate, Bavarian Swabia). Wedel (2008) found Gastrocopta moravica oligodonta in Viernheim research borehole, Germany.
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Further reading Kroupa O. (1993). "Zpráva o znovuobjevení holotypu Gastrocopta moravica (Petrbok, 1950)(sic!) (Gastropoda, Vertiginidae). [Report about the re-discovery of Gastrocopta moravica holotype]". Zemní (zemný) plyn a nafta 38(4): 257-259.