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Heloplax

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Heloplax
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: incertae sedis
Family: Heloplacidae
Genus: Heloplax
Species:
H. papilla
Binomial name
Heloplax papilla
Cherns, 1998

Heloplax is a genus of worm-like molluscs. Its soft parts are preserved in three dimensions in the Silurian Herefordshire Lagerstatte; its disarticulated valves are known from other Silurian deposits.[1] It is very bizarre by modern standards; it bears serially repeated units, and has spines. It probably falls somewhere between the aplacophorans and polyplacophora; its valves were composed of aragonite[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b 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. Bibcode:2004Palgy..47..293S. doi:10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00374.x. S2CID 84577088.