Heterochiton

Heterochiton
Temporal range: Jurassic[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Polyplacophora
Order: Neoloricata
Family: Mopaliidae
Subfamily: Heterochitoninae
Genus: Heterochiton
Graebner et Mattfeld in Ascherson et Graebner, 1919

Heterochiton is an extinct genus of polyplacophoran mollusc. Heterochiton became extinct during the Jurassic period.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6.
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