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{how old?} 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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