''Hanleya'' is a genus of
polyplacophoran mollusc
Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...
s known from Oligocene and
Miocene
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fossils;
it is represented today by a number of species including ''
H. sinica'' Xu 1990 (China),
''
H. brachyplax'' (Brazil)
and ''H. hanleyi'' Bean in Thorpe, 1844 (Chile), which feeds on sponges.
References
Prehistoric chiton genera
Chiton genera
Oligocene genus first appearances
Miocene genus extinctions
Hanleyidae
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