Bulimulus fazendicus

Bulimulus fazendicus; Temporal range: Late Paleocene (Itaboraian-Riochican); ~58–55 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Apertural view of a fossil shell of Bulimulus fazendicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura; clade Panpulmonata; clade Eupulmonata; clade Stylommatophora; informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Orthalicoidea
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.[1]

References

Salvador, R.B., and L.R.L. Simone. 2013. Taxonomic revision of the fossil pulmonate mollusks of Itaboraí Basin (Paleocene), Brazil. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 53. 5–46. Accessed 2017-10-01.

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