Calvapilosa

Calvapilosa
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Family: †Siphogonuchitidae
Genus: †
Vinther et al., 2017[2]
Species:
†C. kroegeri
Binomial name
†Calvapilosa kroegeri
Vinther et al., 2017[1]

Calvapilosa is an extinct genus of early mollusc from the Early Ordovician (around 480 million years ago), known from the Fezouata Formation of Morocco. The only known species, Calvapilosa kroegeri, was described in 2017 by Vinther et al. It has been recovered as a stem-group aculiferan.[3]

Description

Distribution

References

  1. ^ †Calvapilosa kroegeri in the Paleobiology Database
  2. ^ †Calvapilosa in the Paleobiology Database
  3. ^ Vinther, Jakob; Parry, Luke; Briggs, Derek E. G.; Van Roy, Peter (February 2017). "Ancestral morphology of crown-group molluscs revealed by a new Ordovician stem aculiferan". Nature. 542 (7642): 471–474. Bibcode:2017Natur.542..471V. doi:10.1038/nature21055. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 28166536.
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