Biology:Acutichiton

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Short description: Extinct genus of molluscs

Acutichiton
Temporal range: Lower Devonian– Carboniferous[1][2]
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Polyplacophora
Order: Lepidopleurida
Family: Leptochitonidae
Subfamily: Helminthochitoninae
Genus: Acutichiton
Hoare, R.D.; Sturgeon, M.T.; Hoare, T.B. (1972). "Middle Pennsylvanian (Allegheny Group) Polyplacophora from Ohio". Journal of Paleontology 46 (5): 675–680. 
Species
  • A. etheridgei A. depressolatus
  • A. PYRMIDALUS Hoare, R.D.; Sturgeon, M.T.; Hoare, T.B. (1972). "Middle Pennsylvanian (Allegheny Group) Polyplacophora from Ohio". Journal of Paleontology 46 (5): 675–680. 
  • Hoare, R.D.; Mapes, R.H. (1985). "A New Species of Pennsylvanian Polyplacophora (Mollusca) from Texas". Journal of Paleontology '59' (5): 1324–1326.  Hoare, Richard D. (June 1999). "New Occurrences and a New Species of Pennsylvanian Polyplacophorans (Mollusca) in Ohio". The Ohio Journal of Science 99 (3): 49–52. 
  • A. gracilis A. ALLYNSMITHI
  • Hoare, R. D.; Plas, LEO P.; Yancey, T. E. (2002). "Permian Polyplacophora (Mollusca) from Nevada, Utah, and Arizona". Journal of Paleontology '76' (2): 256. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<0256:PPMFNU>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0022-3360 Smith, Allyn G.; Hoare, Richard D. (Feb 25, 1987). PALEOZOIC POLYPLACOPHORA: A CHECKLIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences. https://archive.org/details/occasionalpapers146cali. 
  • A. PANNUCEUS HOARE, R. D., R. H. MAPES, AND D. E. ATWATER. 1983. Pennsylvanian Polyplacophora (Mollusca) from Oklahoma and Texas. Journal of Paleontology, 57:992-1000
  • Hoare, R. D.; Plas, LEO P.; Yancey, T. E. (2002). "Permian Polyplacophora (Mollusca) from Nevada, Utah, and Arizona". Journal of Paleontology '76' (2): 256. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<0256:PPMFNU>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0022-3360 A. nevadensis

Acutichiton is among the most primitive genera of Neoloricate chitons.[3] Acutichiton became extinct during the Carboniferous period.[1] Articulated specimens are known.[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6. 
  2. Hoare, R. D.; Farrell, J. R. (2004). "Lower Devonian Polyplacophora from New South Wales, Australia". Palaeontology 47 (6): 1495. doi:10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00415.x. Bibcode2004Palgy..47.1495H. 
  3. Sigwart, J. D.; Sutton, M. D. (Oct 2007). "Deep molluscan phylogeny: synthesis of palaeontological and neontological data". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274 (1624): 2413–2419. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.0701. PMID 17652065.  For a summary, see "The Mollusca". University of California Museum of Paleontology. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/taxa/inverts/mollusca/mollusca.php. 
  4. Hoare, R. D; Mapes, R. H (1989). "Articulated Specimen of Acutichiton allynsmithi (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) from Oklahoma". Journal of Paleontology 63 (2): 251. doi:10.1017/S0022336000019302. Bibcode1989JPal...63..251H. 

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