A Silurian armoured aplacophoran and implications for molluscan phylogeny

Mark D. Sutton (), Derek E. G. Briggs, David J. Siveter, Derek J. Siveter and Julia D. Sigwart
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Mark D. Sutton: Imperial College London, London SW7 2BP, UK
Derek E. G. Briggs: and Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, PO Box 208109, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8109, USA
David J. Siveter: University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Derek J. Siveter: University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3AN, UK
Julia D. Sigwart: Queen’s University Belfast, School of Biological Sciences, Marine Laboratory, Portaferry, Northern Ireland BT22 1PF, UK

Nature, 2012, vol. 490, issue 7418, 94-97

Abstract: A fossil of an aplacophoran from the Silurian of Herefordshire, England, is shown to have armour plating, supporting recent studies that have allied the worm-like, shell-less Aplacophora with the multi-shelled Polyplacophora, or chitons.

Date: 2012
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