Propupa is an extinct genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the superfamily Pupilloidea. Propupa hoffeinsorum is the only species in the genus Propupa, and was described from a fossil found in Baltic amber in 2006.[1]

Propupa
Temporal range: Eocene[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:
Family:
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Genus:
Propupa

Stworzewicz & Pokryszko, 2006[1]
Species:
P. hoffeinsorum
Binomial name
Propupa hoffeinsorum
Stworzewicz & Pokryszko, 2006[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Stworzewicz E., Pokryszko B. M. (2006). "Eocene terrestrial snails (Gastropoda) from Baltic amber". Annales Zoologici 56(1): 215-224. abstract, abstract