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Extinct genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Itaborahia is a fossil genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Bulimulidae. The genus is known only from the Brazilian Paleocene deposits of the Itaboraí Basin, in the state of Rio de Janeiro.[1]
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| Two views of a fossil shell of Itaborahia lamegoi | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Genus: | †Itaborahia |
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| †Itaborahia lamegoi Maury, 1935[2] | |
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| 1 extinct species | |
The only species currently in this genus is Itaborahia lamegoi Maury, 1935, although some other species were previously included within this genus.[1]
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