Plagiodontes dentatus

Plagiodontes dentatus
Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent[1]
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: Odontostomidae
Genus: Plagiodontes
Species: P. dentatus
Binomial name
Plagiodontes dentatus
(Wood, 1828)
Synonyms

Cyclodontina dentata

Plagiodontes dentatus is a recent species of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Orthalicidae, subfamily Odontostominae. It occurs in Entre Ríos Province, Argentina.[2]

Fossil record

Plagiodontes dentatus has a fossil record extending back to the Brazilian Paleocene, with a supposed specimen belonging to this species found in the limestones of Itaboraí Basin.[1][3] It has also been recorded from the Miocene of Uruguay and Miocene and Pleistocene of Argentina.[4][5][2]

References

  1. 1 2 Salvador, R.B. & Simone, L.R.L. 2012. New fossil pulmonate snails from the Paleocene of Itaboraí Basin, Brazil (Pulmonata: Cerionidae, Strophocheilidae, Orthalicidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 141(1): 43-50. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/043-050
  2. 1 2 Morton, L.S. & Herbst, R. 1993. Gastrópodos del Cretácico (Formación Mercedes) del Uruguay. Ameghiniana, 30(4): 445–452.
  3. 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)
  4. Caorsi J. & Goñi J.C. 1958. Geologia Uruguaya. Boletín del Instituto Geológico del Uruguay, Montevideo, 37:1–73.
  5. Parodiz, J.J. 1969. The Tertiary Non-marine Mollusca of South America. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 40: 1–242.


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