Balticopta
Appearance
Balticopta Temporal range: Late Eocene,
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Gastrocoptidae |
Genus: | †Balticopta Balashov & Perkovsky, 2020 |
Species: | †B. gusakovi
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Binomial name | |
†Balticopta gusakovi Balashov & Perkovsky, 2020
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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.
References
- ^ 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.
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