Ribeiria is a genus of rostroconch mollusc with a pegma, once interpreted as an intermediate between helcionellids (such as Anabarella and Latouchella) and primitive scaphopods (such as Pinnocaris).[2]
Ribeiria Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | †Rostroconchia |
Order: | †Ribeirioida |
Genus: | †Ribeiria Sharpe, 1853 |
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References
edit- ^ Woodward, Samuel Peckworth; Tate, Ralph (1868). A manual of the Mollusca: being a treatise on recent and fossil shells.
- ^ Peel, J. S. (1991). "Functional Morphology of the Class Helcionelloida Nov., and the Early Evolution of the Mollusca". In Simonetta, A. M.; Conway Morris, S (eds.). The Early Evolution of Metazoa and the Significance of Problematic Taxa. Cambridge University Press. pp. 157–177. ISBN 978-0-521-40242-2.