Temesa magalhaesi
| Temesa magalhaesi Temporal range: Paleocene[1] | |
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| A fossil shell of Temesa magalhaesi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Clausilioidea |
| Family: | Clausiliidae |
| Genus: | Temesa |
| Species: | †T. magalhaesi |
| Binomial name | |
| Temesa magalhaesi (Trindade, 1953) | |
Temesa magalhaesi is a fossil species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails. The species is found in the Paleocene deposits of the Itaboraí Basin, in Brazil. This is the oldest record of the subfamily, although the species is only tentatively placed in the genus.[1]
References
- 1 2 Salvador, R.B. & Simone, L.R.L. 2013. Taxonomic revision of the fossil pulmonate mollusks of Itaboraí Basin (Paleocene), Brazil. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 53(2): 5-46. (http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0031-10492013000200001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en)
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