Plagiodontes Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
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 | |
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Plagiodontes is a recent genus of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Cyclodontinidae. [2] [3]
It occurs in tropical and sub-tropical regions of South America. [4]
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 within the genus Plagiodontes include: