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Heloplax

Heloplax
Scientific classification
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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