Bulimulus trindadeae

Bulimulus trindadeae is a fossil species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae, from the Paleocene deposits of the Itaboraí Basin in Brazil.[1]

Bulimulus trindadeae
Temporal range: Paleocene[1]
Two views of a fossil shell of Bulimulus trindadeae
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. trindadeae
Binomial name
Bulimulus trindadeae
Ferreira & Coelho, 1971
Synonyms

Itaborahia trindadeae

References
  1. 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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