Chippewaella

Chippewaella patellitheca is a stem-gastropod mollusc from Furongian-aged strata of Late Cambrian Wisconsin.[1] According to Peter J. Wagner, it is the most basal gastropod.[2]

Chippewaella
Temporal range: Furongian [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Genus: Chippewaella
Species:
C. patellitheca
Binomial name
Chippewaella patellitheca
Gunderson, 1993

Morphology

C. patellitheca is known from broad, low, cap-shaped or mound-shaped shells around 2 centimeters in diameter. The shell has a slight apex that points posteriorly, and is at the posterior end of a central dorsal ridge.[1]

References

  1. Gunderson, G. O. 1993. New genus of Late Cambrian gastropod. Journal of Paleontology 67(6):1083-1084
  2. Wagner, P. J. (2004). "Phylogenetic Relationships of the Earliest Anisostrophically Coiled Gastropods". Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 88: 1–152. doi:10.5479/si.00810266.88.1.


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