Parafossarulus crassitesta Temporal range: Pleistocene |
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The shell of Parafossarulus crassitesta | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
Family: | Bithyniidae |
Genus: | Parafossarulus |
Species: | P. crassitesta |
Binomial name | |
Parafossarulus crassitesta (Brömme, 1885) |
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Synonyms | |
Bithynia (Parafossarulus) crassitesta |
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Bithynia (Parafossarulus) crassitesta
Parafossarulus crassitesta is an extinct species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.
Glöer (2002) reassigned two European extinct species of Parafossarulus as a subgenus of the genus Bithynia, but genus Parafossarulus is generally accepted for Asian species.
This species occurred in Europe in the Epoch.