Propupa

Propupa is an extinct genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the superfamily Pupilloidea. Propupa hoffeinsorum is the only species in the genus Propupa, and was described from a fossil found in Baltic amber in 2006.[1]

Propupa
Temporal range: Eocene[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:
Pupilloidea
Family:
?
Genus:
†Propupa

Stworzewicz & Pokryszko, 2006[1]
Species:
†P. hoffeinsorum
Binomial name
†Propupa hoffeinsorum
Stworzewicz & Pokryszko, 2006[1]

References
  1. Stworzewicz E., Pokryszko B. M. (2006). "Eocene terrestrial snails (Gastropoda) from Baltic amber". Annales Zoologici 56(1): 215-224. abstract, abstract


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