PALEORECONSTITUIÇÃO DE UM MOLUSCO FÓSSIL MARINHO

 

Multiplacophoran, 390 million years old

https://www.livescience.com/23334-extinct-mollusk.html

 

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From: Allen Aigen < serirach@ymail.com >
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Subject: [CONCH-L] multiplacophoran, 390 million years old

 

A  https://www.livescience.com/23334-extinct-mollusk.html   For lovers of chitons (polyplacophorans) here is a reconstructed `Paleozoic specimen with two sets of five side plates that look not unlike modern chiton plates, a head and tail plate, again that could pass as a chiton's, and five narrow central plates, with a heavily spined girdle.   Note the name: Protobalanus spinicoronatus, which implies that this was assumed to be a barnacle when named. Welcome to the mollusca!   Allen Aigen Serirach@ymail.com

 

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