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Strepsodiscus

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Kingdom
  
Family
  
Rank
  
Genus

Superfamily
  
Bellerophontoidea

Phylum
  
Strepsodiscus palaeoscommetazoamolluscabellerophontoideaima

Class
  
Gastropoda or Monoplacophora

Similar
  
Aldanellidae, Scenella, Elimia tenera, Bellerophon, Eogastropoda

Strepsodiscus is an extinct genus of very primitive fossil snail-like molluscs from the early part of the Late Cambrian (Dresbachian Age) of North America. The coiled, slightly asymmetrical shells are about 3 cm in height. It is not known whether these are shells of gastropods (sea snails) or monoplacophorans, which are more primitive mollusks.

Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) divide the Bellerophontoidea into 8 families listed Paleozoic molluscs with isostrophically coiled shells of uncertain position within Mollusca (Gastropoda or Monoplacophora)

Knight, et al., 1960 included this genus within the Cyrtolitidae, a paraphyletic or polyphyletic assemblage of proto-gastropods and Tergomyan molluscs. Strepsodiscus may be too primitive to be a true gastropod.

Species

Species within the genus Strepsodiscus are as follows: [1]

  • Strepsodiscus major
  • S. minutissimus
  • S. paucivoluta
  • S. splettstoesseri
  • S. strongi
  • References

    Strepsodiscus Wikipedia


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