Plagiodontes

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Plagiodontes
Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent [1]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Cyclodontinidae
Genus: Plagiodontes
Doering, 1876
Type species
Pupa dentata
W. Wood, 1828
Synonyms
  • Bulimus (Plagiodontes)Doering, 1877 (original rank)
  • Odontostomus (Plagiodontes)Doering, 1877 (unaccepted combination)

Plagiodontes is a recent genus of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Cyclodontinidae. [2] [3]

Contents

It occurs in tropical and sub-tropical regions of South America. [4]

Fossil record

The fossil record of Plagiodontes extends back to the Brazilian Paleocene, with a supposed specimen of Plagiodontes dentatus found in Itaboraí Basin. [1] This same species has also been recorded from the Miocene of Uruguay and Miocene and Pleistocene of Argentina. [5] [6] [7]

Species

Species within the genus Plagiodontes include:

Synonyms

References

  1. 1 2 Salvador, R.B. & Simone, L.R.L. 2012. New fossil pulmonate snails from the Paleocene of Itaboraí Basin, Brazil (Pulmonata: Cerionidae, Strophocheilidae, Orthalicidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 141(1): 43-50. doi : 10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/043-050
  2. Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail superfamily Orthalicoidea using a three-locus gene analysis with a divergence time analysis and ancestral area reconstruction (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde: International Journal of Malacology 141(1): 1-20. doi : 10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/001-020.
  3. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Plagiodontes Doering, 1876. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=884824 on 2022-01-23
  4. Simone, L.R.L. 2006. Land and Freshwater Mollusca of Brazil. EGB, Fapesp, São Paulo, Brazil. 390 p.
  5. Caorsi J. & Goñi J.C. 1958. Geologia Uruguaya. Boletín del Instituto Geológico del Uruguay, Montevideo, 37:1–73.
  6. Parodiz, J.J. 1969. The Tertiary Non-marine Mollusca of South America. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 40: 1–242.
  7. Morton, L.S. & Herbst, R. 1993. Gastrópodos del Cretácico (Formación Mercedes) del Uruguay. Ameghiniana, 30(4): 445–452.