Parafossarulus crassitesta

Parafossarulus crassitesta is an extinct species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.

Parafossarulus crassitesta Temporal range: Pleistocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
The shell of Parafossarulus crassitesta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Bithyniidae
Genus:	Parafossarulus
Species:	P. crassitesta
Binomial name
Parafossarulus crassitesta (Brömme, 1885)[1]
Synonyms
Bithynia (Parafossarulus) crassitesta

Glöer (2002)^[2] reassigned two European extinct species of Parafossarulus as a subgenus of the genus Bithynia, but genus Parafossarulus is generally accepted for Asian species.

Distribution

This species occurred in Europe in the Pleistocene Epoch.