Valvata salebrosa
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| Valvata salebrosa Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | Valvatidae |
| Genus: | Valvata |
| Species: | †V. salebrosa |
| Binomial name | |
| †Valvata salebrosa Meijer, 1990 | |
Valvata (Tropidina) salebrosa is an extinct species of small freshwater snail in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails.[1] This species is known only from fossil material.
Fossils of this species are known from Lower Pleistocene deposits in the Netherlands. It was first described from fluvial and lacustrine sediments by T. Meijer in 1990.[2]