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Physa is a genus of small, left-handed or sinistral, air-breathing freshwater snails, ... † Physa aridi Mezzalira, 1974 – fossil from Brazil [3]
The holotype specimen (University of Michigan Museum of Zoology #181292) was a fossil from Beaver Co., Oklahoma (Taylor 1954). [5] The species may be Holarctic in distribution based on shells found in Ukraine (Degtyarenko, E. and V. Anistratenko 2011).
Physa aridi is a fossil species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an extinct aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Physidae. This species has a small, left-handed (or sinistral) shell, as is always the case in this family. Physa aridi dates from the Senonian (Upper Cretaceous) of the Bauru Group, in São Paulo state, Brazil. [1]
The name Physella means "little bladder", from Greek physa, [3] and the diminuative ending "-ella". This is in reference to the genus Physa, which P. acuta has, at times, been placed in. Acuta is a Latin word meaning sharp. [4]
The first fossil to be found in the area, Fractofusus misrai, was discovered in June 1967 by Shiva Balak Misra, an Indian graduate student studying geology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In the mid-1980s, the site quickly became recognized as an important location containing possibly the oldest metazoan fossils in North ...
Physa fontinalis, common name the common bladder snail, is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Physidae. The shells of species in the genus Physa are left-handed or sinistral .
Fossil of the Miocene-Pleistocene barnacle Concavus Concavus †Concholepas; Conepatus †Conepatus leuconotus; Conomitra †Conorbis; Conus †Conus anabathrum †Conus daucus †Conus delessertii †Conus eversoni – or unidentified comparable form †Conus jaspideus – type locality for species †Conus miamiensis †Conus patglicksteinae ...
The Utah physa, scientific name Physella utahensis, is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Physidae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The common name refers to the state of Utah . This species is endemic to the United States and is known from Utah, Colorado , and Wyoming .