Heloplacidae

Heloplacidae
Temporal range: Silurian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: incertae sedis
Family: Heloplacidae
Cherns, 2004

The Heloplacidae are a group of plated aplacophora known from Silurian deposits. Their best understood representative, Acaenoplax, can be taken as representative of the family; it is the only genus for which soft part anatomy is known.[1][2]

References

  1. Cherns, L. (2004). "Early Palaeozoic diversification of chitons (Polyplacophora, Mollusca) based on new data from the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden". Lethaia 37 (4): 445–456. doi:10.1080/00241160410002180.
  2. Sutton, M. D.; Briggs, D. E. G.; Siveter, D. J.; Siveter, D. J. (2004). "Computer reconstruction and analysis of the vermiform mollusc Acaenoplax hayae from the Herefordshire Lagerstatte (Silurian, England), and implications for molluscan phylogeny". Palaeontology 47 (2): 293–318. doi:10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00374.x.
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