Brasilennea minor
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Brasilennea minor Temporal range: Paleocene |
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| apertural and lateral view of Brasilennea minor | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Urocoptoidea |
| Family: | Cerionidae |
| Genus: | †Brasilennea |
| Species: | †B. minor |
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Brasilennea minor Trindade, 1956 |
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clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Brasilennea minor is a fossil species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Cerionidae, from the Paleocene Itaboraí Basin, Brazil.Brasilennea minor is the smallest species in the genus Brasilennea; it was originally described as a smaller variant of Brasilennea arethusae (as reflected by its specific epithet), but was later raised to the rank of species.
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