Plagiodontes
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| Plagiodontes Temporal range: | |
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| Plagiodontes_weyenberghii | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Odontostomidae |
| Genus: | Plagiodontes Doering, 1876 |
| Type species | |
| Pupa dentata W. Wood, 1828 | |
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Plagiodontes is a recent genus of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Cyclodontinidae. [2][3]
It occurs in tropical and sub-tropical regions of South America.[4]
The fossil record of Plagiodontes extends back to the Brazilian Paleocene, with a supposed specimen of Plagiodontes dentatus found in Itaboraí Basin.[1] This same species has also been recorded from the Miocene of Uruguay and Miocene and Pleistocene of Argentina.[5][6][7]
