Helcionopsis
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| Helcionopsis Temporal range: | |
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| Drawing of dorsal view of the shell of Helcionopsis radiatum. Head region is on the left. | |
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| Drawing of lateral view of the shell of Helcionopsis radiatum. Head region is on the left. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Monoplacophora |
| Order: | Tryblidiida |
| Family: | †Tryblidiidae |
| Genus: | †Helcionopsis Ulrich & Scofield, 1897[1] |
Helcionopsis is an extinct genus of paleozoic monoplacophoran in the family Tryblidiidae.
The generic name is from the external resemblance which the genus bear to the recent species of the genus Helcion in family Patellidae.[1]
