Acutichiton
Acutichiton is among the most primitive genera of Neoloricate chitons.[3] Acutichiton became extinct during the Carboniferous period.[1] Articulated specimens are known.[4]
Acutichiton Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Polyplacophora |
Order: | Lepidopleurida |
Family: | Leptochitonidae |
Subfamily: | †Helminthochitoninae |
Genus: | †Acutichiton Hoare, R.D.; Sturgeon, M.T.; Hoare, T.B. (1972). "Middle Pennsylvanian (Allegheny Group) Polyplacophora from Ohio". Journal of Paleontology. 46 (5): 675–680. JSTOR 1303024. |
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References
- van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6.
- Hoare, R. D.; Farrell, J. R. (2004). "Lower Devonian Polyplacophora from New South Wales, Australia". Palaeontology. 47 (6): 1495. doi:10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00415.x.
- Sigwart, J. D.; Sutton, M. D. (Oct 2007). "Deep molluscan phylogeny: synthesis of palaeontological and neontological data". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 274 (1624): 2413–2419. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.0701. PMC 2274978. PMID 17652065. For a summary, see "The Mollusca". University of California Museum of Paleontology. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
- Hoare, R. D; Mapes, R. H (1989). "Articulated Specimen of Acutichiton allynsmithi (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) from Oklahoma". Journal of Paleontology. 63 (2): 251. doi:10.1017/S0022336000019302. JSTOR 1305363.
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