Calvapilosa
| Calvapilosa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Family: | †Siphogonuchitidae |
| Genus: | †Calvapilosa Vinther et al., 2017[2] |
| Species: | †C. kroegeri
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| Binomial name | |
| †Calvapilosa kroegeri Vinther et al., 2017[1]
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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
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Distribution
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References
[edit]- ^ †Calvapilosa kroegeri in the Paleobiology Database
- ^ †Calvapilosa in the Paleobiology Database
- ^ 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. doi:10.1038/nature21055. ISSN 1476-4687.