Chippewaella

Chippewaella
Chippewaella
Temporal range: 501–488 Ma
Furongian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Genus: Chippewaella

Chippewaella is a genus of very primitive snail-like mollusc from the Late Cambrian. According to Wagner (1999)[1] it is the most basal gastropod.

Species

References

  1. ^ Wagner P. J. (1999). Phylogenetics of the earliest anisostrophically coiled gastropods. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 88: 1 - 132.
  2. ^ http://www.palaeos.com/Invertebrates/Molluscs/Gastropoda/Tergomya/Tropidodiscidae.html#Chippewaella accessed 22 April 2009

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