Balticopta

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Balticopta
Temporal range: Late Eocene, Priabonian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Eupulmonata
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Gastrocoptidae
Genus: Balticopta
Balashov & Perkovsky, 2020
Species:
B. gusakovi
Binomial name
Balticopta gusakovi
Balashov & Perkovsky, 2020

Balticopta is a fossil genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Gastrocoptidae from Eocene Baltic amber. [1] It includes one species, B. gusakovi.

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References

  1. Balashov I.A. & Perkovsky E.E. 2020. An Eocene land snail Balticopta gusakovi gen.n., sp.n. (Stylommatophora: Gastrocoptidae) from Baltic amber // Invertebrate Zoology. Vol.17. No.1: 18–24.