Bulimulus fazendicus

Summary

Bulimulus fazendicus is a fossil species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae, from the Late Paleocene (Itaboraian to Riochican) deposits of the Itaboraí Basin in Brazil.[1]

Bulimulus fazendicus
Temporal range: Late Paleocene (Itaboraian-Riochican)
~58–55 Ma
Apertural view of a fossil shell of Bulimulus fazendicus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Bulimulus
Species:
B. fazendicus
Binomial name
Bulimulus fazendicus
Maury 1935
Synonyms

Itaborahia fazendicus

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  • Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe; de Simone, Luiz Ricardo Lopes (2013). "Taxonomic revision of the fossil pulmonate mollusks of Itaboraí Basin (Paleocene), Brazil". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492013000200001.