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 | |
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Apertural view of a fossil shell of Bulimulus fazendicus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Bulimulidae |
Genus: | Bulimulus |
Species: | B. fazendicus
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Binomial name | |
Bulimulus fazendicus Maury 1935
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Synonyms | |
Itaborahia fazendicus |
References
edit- ^ Salvador & de Simone 2013, p. 7.
Bibliography
edit- 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.