Propupa Temporal range: Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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
- ^ Stworzewicz E., Pokryszko B. M. (2006). "Eocene terrestrial snails (Gastropoda) from Baltic amber". Annales Zoologici 56(1): 215-224. abstract, abstract
Taxon identifiers | |
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Propupa hoffeinsorum |
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