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Eoborus rotundus Temporal range: Paleocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Eoborus rotundus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Acavoidea
Family:	Strophocheilidae
Subfamily:	Megalobuliminae
Genus:	†Eoborus
Species:	†E. rotundus
Binomial name
Eoborus rotundus Salvador & Simone, 2012

Eoborus rotundus is a fossil species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Strophocheilidae, from the Paleocene Itaboraí Basin, Brazil. Eoborus rotundus is a small species for the genus Eoborus, and the shell has a more rounded shape than average for the genus, a feature reflected in its species name.

References

1. ^ Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe; de Simone, Luiz Ricardo Lopes (1 June 2012). "New fossil pulmonate snails from the Paleocene of Itaboraí Basin, Brazil (Pulmonata: Cerionidae, Strophocheilidae, Orthalicidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde: International Journal of Malacology. 141 (1): 43–50. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/043-050.
2. Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe; Simone, Luiz Ricardo Lopes de (2013). "Taxonomic revision of the fossil pulmonate mollusks of Itaboraí Basin (Paleocene), Brazil". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 53 (2): 5–46. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492013000200001.

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