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Physa aridi

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Physa aridi
Temporal range: Senonian[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Physidae
Genus: Physa
Species:
P. aridi
Binomial name
Physa aridi
Mezzalira, 1974[1]

Physa aridi is a fossil species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an extinct aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Physidae. This species has a small, left-handed (or sinistral) shell, as is always the case in this family. Physa aridi dates from the Senonian (Upper Cretaceous) of the Bauru Group, in São Paulo state, Brazil.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Simone, L.R.L. & Mezzalira, S. 1994. Fossil Molluscs of Brazil. Boletim do Instituto Geológico 11: 1–202.