Chippewaella
| Chippewaella Temporal range: [1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Genus: | †Chippewaella |
| Species: | †C. patellitheca
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| Binomial name | |
| †Chippewaella patellitheca Gunderson, 1993
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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]
Morphology
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ a b c Gunderson, G. O. 1993. New genus of Late Cambrian gastropod. Journal of Paleontology 67(6):1083-1084
- ^ 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.[permanent dead link]
External links
[edit]- ----- [no date]. Systematic Paleontology of the Earliest Gastropods (Including Family and Genus Level Stratigraphic Ranges and Synonyms
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