| Brasilennea minor Temporal range: Paleocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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| apertural and lateral view of Brasilennea minor | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Urocoptoidea |
| Family: | Cerionidae |
| Genus: | †Brasilennea |
| Species: | †B. minor |
| Binomial name | |
| Brasilennea minor Trindade, 1956 | |
Brasilennea minor is a fossil species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Cerionidae, from the Paleocene Itaboraí Basin, Brazil. Brasilennea minor is the smallest species in the genus Brasilennea; it was originally described as a smaller variant of Brasilennea arethusae (as reflected by its specific epithet), but was later raised to the rank of species.
References
- ^ Salvador, R.B.; Rowson, B.; Simone, L.R.L. 2011. "Rewriting the fossil history of Cerionidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata): new family assignment of the Brazilian Palaeocene genus Brasilennea Maury, 1935". Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 445–447. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr021
- ^ Trindade, N.M. 1956. Contribuição ao estudo da malacofauna da São José de Itaboraí, Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Notas Preliminares e Estudos do Departamento Nacional de Produção Mineral 96: 1–22.
- Brito, I.M. 1967. Gastrópodos continentais do Paleoceno do estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Boletim de Geologia do Instituto de Geociências da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 1: 7-28.
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| Brasilennea minor | |
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