Class Tergomya Family Micropilinidae | Rank Genus | |
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Similar Neopilinidae, Tryblidiida, Neopilina, Neopilina galatheae, Monoplacophora |
Micropilina is a genus of monoplacophoran mollusks, very small, mostly deepwater animals which have a superficially limpet-like shell. In addition to a number of living, deep-sea species, this genus also includes a shallow water fossil from the middle Pleistocene of Italy - and this is the only fossil representative of this lineage subsequent to the Devonian period.
Species
Species in the genus Micropilina include:
Fossil species:
Recent species:
References
Micropilina Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA