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Extinct genus of gastropods

Propupa
Temporal range: Eocene PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: ?
Genus: Propupa
Stworzewicz & Pokryszko, 2006
Species: P. hoffeinsorum
Binomial name
Propupa hoffeinsorum
Stworzewicz & Pokryszko, 2006

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.

References

  1. ^ Stworzewicz E., Pokryszko B. M. (2006). "Eocene terrestrial snails (Gastropoda) from Baltic amber". Annales Zoologici 56(1): 215-224. abstract, abstract
Taxon identifiers
Propupa hoffeinsorum


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