Phthipodochiton
| Phthipodochiton Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Polyplacophora |
| Order: | †Paleoloricata |
| Genus: | †Phthipodochiton Sutton and Sigwart, 2012 |
| Species: | †P. thraivensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Phthipodochiton thraivensis Sutton and Sigwart, 2012 | |
Phthipodochiton is an extinct genus of molluscs, known from several fossils from the upper Ordovician fauna of the Lady Burn Starfish beds of Girvan, Scotland. It shows a mixture of aplacophoran body plan and polyplacophoran-like valves, and it is an informative fossil in the evolution of aculiferan mollusks.
It was previously classified under the genus Helminthochiton, but it has been reassigned to its own genus in 2012.