Anguispira russelli was a species of pulmonate land snail in the family Discidae, the disk snails. The species is only known from fossilized specimens. It is named after L.S. Russell, former Director of Zoology at the National Museum of Canada.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Discidae |
| Genus: | Anguispira |
| Species: | A. russelli
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| Binomial name | |
| Anguispira russelli Tozer, 1956
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Fossils
editThe most well-studied and well-documented A. russelli fossil was found by paleontologist Edward Tozer in 1956. It was located in Paskapoo formation in western Canada, dating the shell to the Paleocene.[1][2]
Physical appearance
editThe fossil gathered by Tozer is 14 mm (0.55 in) in width and 7 mm (0.28 in) in height. The shell is a depressed heliciform in shape with 5 whorls that gradually increase in size from the umbilicus and a thin outer lip. The shell is rounded and coarsely striate, with the umbilicus taking up 1/3 of the shell.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c Tozer, E.T. (1956). Uppermost Cretaceous and Paleocene nonmarine molluscan faunas of western Alberta. Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir. 280: 1-125., pages 90-91, pl. 8, figs 10a-c
- ^ Roth, B. (1986). Land mollusks (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from Early Tertiary Bozeman Group, Montana. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 44(11): 237-267., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16005679 page(s): 262
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