Parafossarulus crassitesta is an extinct species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.
| Parafossarulus crassitesta Temporal range: | |
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| The shell of Parafossarulus crassitesta | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Bithyniidae |
| Genus: | Parafossarulus |
| Species: | P. crassitesta |
| Binomial name | |
| Parafossarulus crassitesta (Brömme, 1885)[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
Bithynia (Parafossarulus) crassitesta | |
Glöer (2002)[2] reassigned two European extinct species of Parafossarulus as a subgenus of the genus Bithynia, but genus Parafossarulus is generally accepted for Asian species.
Distribution
This species occurred in Europe in the Pleistocene Epoch.
References
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