Helminthochiton

Helminthochiton
Temporal range: Ordovician–Permian[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Order: Neoloricata
Family: Leptochitonidae
Subfamily: Helminthochitoninae
Genus: Helminthochiton

Helminthochiton is an extinct genus of polyplacophoran mollusc. Helminthochiton became extinct during the Permian period.[1]

Helminthochiton thraivensis has been reassigned to the genus Phthipodochiton in 2012.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6.
  2. Sutton, M. D.; Sigwart, J. D. (2012). "A chiton without a foot". Palaeontology 55 (2): 401. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01126.x.