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A mid-Cretaceous land snail Euthema truncatellina sp. nov. (Caenogastropoda, Cyclophoroidea, Diplommatinidae) from Burmese amber

I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, B. Khmelnitsky str., 15, Kiev, 01030, Ukraine.
I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, B. Khmelnitsky str., 15, Kiev, 01030, Ukraine. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya str. 123, 117647, Moscow, Russia.
Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya str. 123, 117647, Moscow, Russia. Cherepovets State University, Lunacharsky Avenue, 5, 162600, Cherepovets, Russia
Mollusca Caenogastropoda Cyclophoroidea Diplommatinidae

Abstract

Diplommatinidae Pfeiffer, 1857 is a speciose family of minute operculate land snails that includes more than 500 extant species occurring mainly in Southeastern Asia and northern Oceania with some species in tropical America and, arguably, in Madagascar (Kobelt 1902; Wenz 1938-1939; Haas 1961; Egorov. 2013; Yamazaki et al. 2013; Neubert & Bouchet 2015; Nurinsiyah & Hausdorf 2017; Páll-Gergely et al. 2017a; Greke, 2017). The fossil record of Diplommatinidae is very sparse; it was recorded from the Miocene of Poland (Harzhauser & Neubauer 2018) and four species were recently described from Cretaceous Burmese amber, being the oldest known diplommatinids (Yu et al. 2018; Hirano et al. 2019; Bullis et al. 2020).

 

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