Latouchella

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Latouchella
Fossil range: Early Cambrian
Latouchella costata
Latouchella costata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Helcionelloida
Order: Helcionellida
Superfamily: Helcionelloidea
Family: Helcionellidae
Genus: Latouchella
Cobbold, 1921
Species
  • L. costata (type)
  • L. accordionata
  • L. adelocosma
  • L. adunca
  • L. alicae
  • L. arcuata
  • L. arguta
  • L. burlingi
  • L. dimicostata
  • L. holmdalense
  • L. iacobinica
  • L. korobokovi
  • L. merino
  • L. ostenfeldense
  • L. pearylandica
  • L. pocatelloensis
  • L. sonlingpoensis
  •  ?L. memorabilis
  •  ?L. orientalis

Latouchella is an extinct genus of mollusc from the Tommotian epoch of what is now Siberia.

[edit] Description

This genus had a curved, segmented shell, and it is often reconstructed as a snail-like creature.


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