Brasilennea arethusae
| Brasilennea arethusae Temporal range: Paleocene[1] | |
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| apertural and lateral view of Brasilennea arethusae | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Urocoptoidea |
| Family: | Cerionidae |
| Genus: | †Brasilennea |
| Species: | †B. arethusae |
| Binomial name | |
| Brasilennea arethusae Maury, 1935[2] | |
Brasilennea arethusae is a fossil species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Cerionidae, from the Paleocene Itaboraí Basin, Brazil.[1] Brasilennea arethusae is the largest species in the genus Brasilennea.[1] It was one of the first fossils found in Itaboraí Basin and its name makes reference to the fact that it is a terrestrial species: the name is in honor of Arethusa, a sylvan nymph and one of the Hesperides from Greek mythology.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 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
- 1 2 Maury, C.J. 1935. New genera and new species of fossil terrestrial Mollusca from Brazil. American Museum Novitates 764: 1–15. PDF.
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