Brasilennea guttula
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Brasilennea guttula Temporal range:
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Cerionidae |
Genus: | †Brasilennea |
Species: | †B. guttula
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Binomial name | |
†Brasilennea guttula Salvador & Simone, 2012[1]
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Brasilennea guttula is a fossil species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Cerionidae, from the Paleocene Itaboraí Basin, Brazil.[1] Brasilennea guttula shows a peculiar shell shape, distinct from the other species in the genus; the shape is reminiscent of a water drop, which led to the specific epithet of Brasilennea guttula.[1]
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