Biology:Bulimulus fazendicus

Short description: Extinct species of gastropod

Bulimulus fazendicus Temporal range: Late Paleocene (Itaboraian-Riochican) ~58–55 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Apertural view of a fossil shell of Bulimulus fazendicus
Scientific 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

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.

References

Bibliography

• 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. 

Wikidata ☰ Q16954457 entry