Bulimulus fazendicus

Bulimulus fazendicus is a fossil species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae, from the Late Paleocene (Itaboraian to Riochican) deposits of the Itaboraí Basin in Brazil.[1]

Bulimulus fazendicus
Temporal range: Late Paleocene (Itaboraian-Riochican)
~58–55 Ma
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Apertural view of a fossil shell of Bulimulus fazendicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Orthalicoidea
Family:
Bulimulidae
Genus:
Bulimulus
Species:
†B. fazendicus
Binomial name
Bulimulus fazendicus
Maury 1935
Synonyms

Itaborahia fazendicus

References
  1. Salvador & de Simone 2013, p. 7.

Bibliography
  • Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe; de Simone, Luiz Ricardo Lopes (2013). "Taxonomic revision of the fossil pulmonate mollusks of Itaboraí Basin (Paleocene), Brazil". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492013000200001.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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