Temesa (gastropod)

Temesa is a genus of medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails. The fossil record of this genus ranges tentatively from the Brazilian Paleocene of the Itaboraí Basin, in Rio de Janeiro State, where the species T. magalhaesi is found.^[1]

Temesa Temporal range: Paleocene[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
A fossil shell of Temesa magalhaesi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Clausiliidae
Genus:	Temesa H. & A. Adams, 1855
Species
†T. magalhaesi

Species

The genus includes the following species:

• T. magalhaesi (Trindade, 1953) - fossil from Brazil