A species of the turbinid genus Heteroninella Magne, 1941 is described from the Velerin Conglomerates (Zanclean, Pliocene) near Estepona (southern Spain); this constitutes the first record of this genus from the Neogene of Europe. Originally, Heteroninella bertarellii (Andreoli & Marsigli, 1997) was placed in the trochid genus Gibbula Risso, 1826.

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Bernard Landau, & Pierre Lozouet. (2002). The genus Heteroninella (Gastropoda, Turbinidae) from the Lower Pliocene of Estepona, southern Spain. Cainozoic research, 2(1/2), 3–8.