Parafossarulus crassitesta is an extinct species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.
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| The shell of Parafossarulus crassitesta | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Bithyniidae |
| Genus: | Parafossarulus |
| Species: | P. crassitesta
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| Parafossarulus crassitesta | |
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Bithynia (Parafossarulus) crassitesta | |
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
editThis species occurred in Europe in the Pleistocene Epoch.
References
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- ^ Brömme Ch. (1885). "Die Conchylien-Fauna des Mosbacher Diluvialsandes". Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 38: 72-80. page 77.
- ^ Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0, page 190-194.
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