Cecilioides sommeri
| Cecilioides sommeri Temporal range: Paleocene[1] | |
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| A fossil shell of Cecilioides sommeri | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
| Family: | Ferussaciidae |
| Genus: | †Cecilioides |
| Species: | †C. sommeri |
| Binomial name | |
| Cecilioides sommeri (Ferreira & Coelho, 1971) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Carychium sommeri | |
Cecilioides sommeri is a fossil species of minute air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ferussaciidae, from the Paleocene deposits of the Itaboraí Basin, in Brazil.[1] This is the oldest known species in the family.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Salvador, R.B. & Simone, L.R.L. Taxonomic revision of the fossil pulmonate mollusks of Itaboraí Basin (Paleocene), Brazil. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 53(2): 5-46. (http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0031-10492013000200001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en)
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