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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | incertae sedis |
| Family: | †Heloplacidae |
| Genus: | †Heloplax |
| Species: | †H. papilla
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| Binomial name | |
| †Heloplax papilla Cherns, 1998
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References
edit- ^ a b Sutton, M. D.; Briggs, D. E. G.; Siveter, D. J.; Siveter, D. J. (2004). "Computer reconstruction and analysis of the vermiform mollusc Acaenoplax hayae from the Herefordshire Lagerstatte (Silurian, England), and implications for molluscan phylogeny". Palaeontology. 47 (2): 293–318. Bibcode:2004Palgy..47..293S. doi:10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00374.x. S2CID 84577088.
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