Cortana (gastropod)
| Cortana Temporal range: Paleocene[1] | |
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| Apertural view of a fossil shell of Cortana carvalhoi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Bulimulidae |
| Genus: | †Cortana Salvador & Simone, 2013[1] |
| Type species | |
| †Bulimulus carvalhoi (Brito, 1967)[2] | |
| Species | |
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| Diversity[1] | |
| 1 extinct species | |
Cortana is a fossil genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Bulimulidae. The genus is known only from the Brazilian Paleocene deposits of the Itaboraí Basin, in the state of Rio de Janeiro.[1] The most characteristic feature of the genus is its apertural armature.[1]
Species
The sole species in the genus is Cortana carvalhoi (Brito,1967).[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 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)
- ↑ Brito, I.M. 1967. Gastrópodos continentais do Paleoceno do estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Boletim de Geologia do Instituto de Geociências da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 1: 7‑28.
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