Lioplacodes

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Lioplacodes
Temporal range: Jurassic–Paleocene
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Viviparidae
Genus: Lioplacodes
Meek, 1864 [1]
Type species
Melania veterna

Lioplacodes is an extinct genus of freshwater snail of the family Viviparidae. It lived from the Jurassic to Paleocene of Canada, the United States, and China. [2]

Species

Species within Lioplacodes include: [3]

References

  1. Meek, F.B. (1864). "Checklist of the invertebrate fossils of North America. Cretaceous and Jurassic". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 177 (2): 1–40.
  2. "†Lioplacodes Meek and Hayden 1864 (snail)". PaleobiologyDatabase. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
  3. "Lioplacodes Meek, 1864 †". MolluscaBase. Retrieved 30 January 2025.