Talk:Monoplacophora

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[edit] Replacement taxonomic name

According to the Paleobiology Database:

Monoplacophora was named by Knight (1952) [W. Wenz in ]. It is extant.

Tergomya was named by R.J. Horný (1965) This now replaces Monoplacophora.

It was replaced with Tergomya by Peel (1991); and was revalidated by Kosnik (2002).

The line "These organisms were known only from the fossil record, and thought to have vanished in Devonian times, until in April 1952 a living specimen was dredged up from deep marine sediments in the Middle America Trench off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica." is pretty much out of one of my college text books- right down to the word "dredged." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.97.80.242 (talk) 09:31, 11 April 2008 (UTC)