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Polysacos

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Kingdom
  
Class
  
Polyplacophora

Genus
  
†Polysacos

Phylum
  
Order
  
Species
  
†P. vickersianum

Polysacos is a genus of multiplacophorans (chitons) known from articulated Carboniferous fossils; its seventeen shell plates are arranged in three rows, with seven iterated units. It demonstrates that multiplacophora are related to modern polyplacophora. It was fringed with a ring of hollow spines resembling those of the Ordovician Echinochiton.

References

Polysacos Wikipedia


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