Cecilioides 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]

Cecilioides sommeri
Temporal range: Paleocene[1]
A fossil shell of Cecilioides sommeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Achatinoidea
Family:
Ferussaciidae
Genus:
†Cecilioides
Species:
†C. sommeri
Binomial name
Cecilioides sommeri
(Ferreira & Coelho, 1971)
Synonyms

Carychium sommeri

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)


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.