Euthema truncatellina

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Euthema truncatellina
Temporal range: Cenomanian
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Diplommatinidae
Genus: Euthema
Species:
E. truncatellina
Binomial name
Euthema truncatellina
Balashov, Perkovsky & Vasilenko, 2020[1]

Euthema truncatellina is a fossil species of minute land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod molluscs in the family Diplommatinidae, described from the Cretaceous Burmese amber.[1][2][3][4]

Description[]

Shell almost cylindrical, comprising 6.5 moderately convex whorls, ribbed, with weak constriction. Aperture circular. Umbilicus narrow. Periumbilical keel absent. Height of shell 1.7 mm, width of shell 0.9 mm.[1][2]

Etymology[]

The species is named after the extant genus Truncatellina (Stylommatophora), which has a similar shell, acknowledging the convergence in the different lineages of gastropods on land.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Balashov, I.; Perkovsky, E.; Vasilenko, D. (2020). "A mid-Cretaceous land snail Euthema truncatellina sp. nov. (Caenogastropoda, Cyclophoroidea, Diplommatinidae) from Burmese amber". Zootaxa. 4858 (2): 295–300. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4858.2.11. PMID 33056238.
  2. ^ a b Balashov, I. (2021). "The first records of mollusks from mid-Cretaceous Hkamti amber (Myanmar), with the description of a land snail, Euthema myanmarica n. sp. (Caenogastropoda, Cyclophoroidea, Diplommatinidae)". Journal of Paleontology: 1–10. doi:10.1017/jpa.2021.26.
  3. ^ MolluscaBase - Euthema truncatellina
  4. ^ ZooBank - Euthema truncatellina


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