Heloplax

Heloplax
Scientific 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. 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

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