| Phthipodochiton Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Polyplacophora |
| Order: | †Paleoloricata |
| Genus: | †Phthipodochiton Sutton and Sigwart, 2012[1] |
| Species: | †P. thraivensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Phthipodochiton thraivensis Sutton and Sigwart, 2012
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Phthipodochiton is an extinct genus of molluscs, known from several fossils from the upper Ordovician fauna of the Lady Burn Starfish beds of Girvan, Scotland.[1] It shows a mixture of aplacophoran body plan and polyplacophoran-like valves, and it is an informative fossil in the evolution of aculiferan mollusks.[1]
It was previously classified under the genus Helminthochiton,[2] but it has been reassigned to its own genus in 2012.[1]
- ^ a b c d Sutton, M. D.; Sigwart, J. D. (2012). "A chiton without a foot". Palaeontology. 55 (2): 401. Bibcode:2012Palgy..55..401S. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01126.x. S2CID 86554201.
- ^ van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6.