Propupa

{{Short description|Extinct genus of gastropods}}

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| fossil_range= {{fossil range|Eocene|ref=}}

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Gastropoda

| unranked_superfamilia = clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata

clade Eupulmonata

clade Stylommatophora

informal group Orthurethra

| superfamilia = Pupilloidea

| familia = ?

| genus = †Propupa

| genus_authority = Stworzewicz & Pokryszko, 2006

| species = †P. hoffeinsorum

| binomial = †Propupa hoffeinsorum

| binomial_authority = Stworzewicz & Pokryszko, 2006Stworzewicz E., Pokryszko B. M. (2006). "Eocene terrestrial snails (Gastropoda) from Baltic amber". Annales Zoologici 56(1): 215-224. [http://psjc.icm.edu.pl/psjc/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?AAAA020340 abstract], [http://www.miiz.waw.pl/periodicals/annales-zoologici/abstracts/AZ-56-1-abs.pdf abstract]

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Propupa is an extinct genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the superfamily Pupilloidea. Propupa hoffeinsorum is the only species in the genus Propupa, and was described from a fossil found in Baltic amber in 2006.

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Category:Eocene gastropods

Category:Stylommatophora

Category:Baltic amber

Category:Fossil taxa described in 2006

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