''Cobcrephora'' is a genus of that resembles the
Palaeoloricates, known from the
Silurian
The Silurian ( ) is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya. The Silurian is the shortest period of the Paleozo ...
of
Gotland.
Its interpretation as a polyplacophoran is widely challenged.
Its
mollusc shell
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is unique, because ''Cobcrephora'' was described on the basis of isolated phosphatic sclerites.
[Bischoff, G. C. O. 1981. Cobcrephora n. g., representative of a new Polyplacophoran order phosphatoloricata, with calciumphosphatic shells. ]Senckenbergiana Lethaea
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, 61:173-215 Its overlapping sclerites are arched and small, comprise two shell layers, and have lamellar projections.
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References
Silurian animals
Prehistoric chiton genera
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