Heloplax
Extinct genus of molluscs
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Heloplax is a genus of worm-like molluscs. Its soft parts are preserved in three dimensions in the Silurian Herefordshire Lagerstatte; its disarticulated valves are known from other Silurian deposits.[1] It is very bizarre by modern standards; it bears serially repeated units, and has spines. It probably falls somewhere between the aplacophorans and polyplacophora; its valves were composed of aragonite[1]
| Heloplax | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | incertae sedis |
| Family: | †Heloplacidae |
| Genus: | †Heloplax |
| Species: | †H. papilla |
| Binomial name | |
| †Heloplax papilla Cherns, 1998 | |
