Austrodiscus lopesi

Austrodiscus lopesi is a fossil species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Charopidae, from the Paleocene deposits of the Itaboraí Basin in Brazil.[1]

Austrodiscus lopesi
Temporal range: Paleocene[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Punctoidea
Family:
Charopidae
Genus:
Austrodiscus
Species:
†A. lopesi
Binomial name
Austrodiscus lopesi
Fereira & Coelho, 1989

References
  1. Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe; Simone, Luiz Ricardo Lopes de (2013). "Taxonomic revision of the fossil pulmonate mollusks of Itaboraí Basin (Paleocene), Brazil". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492013000200001.


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