Propupa
Extinct genus of gastropods
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Propupa is an extinct genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the superfamily Pupilloidea. Propupa hoffeinsorum is the only species in the genus Propupa, and was described from a fossil found in Baltic amber in 2006.[1]
| Propupa Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Vertiginidae |
| Genus: | †Propupa Stworzewicz & Pokryszko, 2006[1] |
| Species: | †P. hoffeinsorum |
| Binomial name | |
| †Propupa hoffeinsorum Stworzewicz & Pokryszko, 2006[1] | |