Parafossarulus crassitesta
Parafossarulus crassitesta Temporal range: Pleistocene
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The shell of Parafossarulus crassitesta | |
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Phylum: | Mollusca
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Class: | Gastropoda
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Species: | P. crassitesta
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Parafossarulus crassitesta (, 1885)[1]
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Bithynia (Parafossarulus) crassitesta |
Parafossarulus crassitesta is an extinct species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.
Glöer (2002)[2] reassigned two European extinct species of Parafossarulus as a subgenus of the genus Bithynia, but genus Parafossarulus is generally accepted for Asian species.
Distribution[]
This species occurred in Europe in the Pleistocene Epoch.
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Categories:
- Bithyniidae
- Prehistoric gastropods
- Gastropods described in 1885
- Hypsogastropoda stubs