Itaborahia

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Itaborahia
Temporal range: Paleocene[1]
Itaborahia lamegoi.jpg
Two views of a fossil shell of
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Family:
Genus:
Itaborahia

Maury, 1935[2]
Type species

Maury, 1935[2]
Species
Diversity[1]
1 extinct species

Itaborahia is a fossil genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Bulimulidae. The genus is known only from the Brazilian Paleocene deposits of the Itaboraí Basin, in the state of Rio de Janeiro.[1]

Species[]

The only species currently in this genus is Maury, 1935, although some other species were previously included within this genus.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe; Simone, Luiz Ricardo Lopes de (2013). "Taxonomic revision of the fossil pulmonate mollusks of Itaboraí Basin (Paleocene), Brazil". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo). doi:10.1590/S0031-10492013000200001.
  2. ^ a b Maury, Carlotta Joaquina (1935). "New genera and new species of fossil terrestrial Mollusca from Brazil". American Museum Novitates. 764: 1–15. hdl:2246/4568.


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