Urticicola perchtae

Urticicola perchtae is a fossil species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, from the Early/Middle Miocene of Sandelzhausen (type locality) and Oggenhausen, southern Germany.[1]

Urticicola perchtae
Temporal range: Miocene[1]
Urticicola perchtae, holotype
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Hygromiidae
Genus:
Urticicola
Species:
โ€ U. perchtae
Binomial name
Urticicola perchtae
Salvador, 2013[1]

References
  1. Salvador, R.B. (2013). The fossil pulmonate snails of Sandelzhausen (Early/Middle Miocene, Germany): Succineidae, Testacelloidea and Helicoidea. Zootaxa 3721(2): 157โ€“171. .


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