Brasilennea minor

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.[1] Brasilennea minor is the smallest species in the genus Brasilennea;[1] it was originally described as a smaller variant of Brasilennea arethusae (as reflected by its specific epithet),[2] but was later raised to the rank of species.[3]

Brasilennea minor Temporal range: Paleocene[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
apertural and lateral view of Brasilennea minor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Urocoptoidea
Family:	Cerionidae
Genus:	†Brasilennea
Species:	†B. minor
Binomial name
Brasilennea minor Trindade, 1956[2]

References

1. Salvador, R.B.; Rowson, B.; Simone, L.R.L. 2011. "Rewriting the fossil history of Cerionidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata): new family assignment of the Brazilian Palaeocene genus Brasilennea Maury, 1935". Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 445–447. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr021
2. Trindade, N.M. 1956. Contribuição ao estudo da malacofauna da São José de Itaboraí, Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Notas Preliminares e Estudos do Departamento Nacional de Produção Mineral 96: 1–22.
3. Brito, I.M. 1967. Gastrópodos continentais do Paleoceno do estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Boletim de Geologia do Instituto de Geociências da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 1: 7-28.