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Plagiodontes dentatus

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Plagiodontes dentatus is a recent species of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Cyclodontinidae. It occurs in Entre Ríos Province, Argentina.[2]

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Plagiodontes dentatus
Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent[1]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Cyclodontinidae
Genus: Plagiodontes
Species:
P. dentatus
Binomial name
Plagiodontes dentatus
(Wood, 1828)
Synonyms

Cyclodontina dentata

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Fossil record

Plagiodontes dentatus has a fossil record extending back to the Brazilian Paleocene, with a supposed specimen belonging to this species found in the limestones of Itaboraí Basin.[1][3] It has also been recorded from the Miocene of Uruguay and Miocene and Pleistocene of Argentina.[4][5][2]

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