Micropilina

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.[1]

Micropilina
Temporal range: Pleistocene–Recent
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
(unranked): Monoplacophora
Class: Tergomya
Order: Tryblidiida
Family: Micropilinidae
Genus: Micropilina

Species

Species in the genus Micropilina include:

Fossil species:

Recent species:

  • Micropilina arntzi Warén & Hain, 1992
  • Micropilina minuta Warén, 1989
  • Micropilina rakiura Marshall, 1998
  • Micropilina reingi Marshall, 2006
  • Micropilina tangaroa Marshall, 1992
  • Micropilina wareni Marshall, 2006

Interactive 3D model contained within PDF of Ruthensteiner, B.; Schropel, V.; Haszprunar, G. (2010). "Anatomy and affinities of Micropilina minuta Warén, 1989 (Monoplacophora: Micropilinidae)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 76 (4): 323–332. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyq013.

References
  1. Taviani, M.; Sabelli, B.; Candini, F. (1990). "A fossil Cenozoic monoplacophoran". Lethaia. 23 (2): 213–216. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1990.tb01361.x.


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