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Lioplacodes

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.

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Lioplacodes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Viviparidae
Genus: Lioplacodes
Meek, 18641
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

  • Lioplacodes veternus Meek & Hayden, 1861
  • Lioplacodes bituminus Russell, 1932
  • Lioplacodes bolivianus Parodiz, 1969
  • Lioplacodes canaliculatus Yen, 1951
  • Lioplacodes cholnokyi (Schlosser, 1906)
  • Lioplacodes conoides Yu, 1982
  • Lioplacodes convexiculus Yen, 1946
  • Lioplacodes cretaceus (Stanton, 1899)
  • Lioplacodes endlichi (White, 1878)
  • Lioplacodes fallax Yu, 1982
  • Lioplacodes feruglioi Parodiz, 1969
  • Lioplacodes gansuensis Pan, 1982
  • Lioplacodes jiangsuensis Gu, 1989
  • Lioplacodes judithensis (Stanton & Hatcher, 1905)
  • Lioplacodes jurassicus Yen, 1952
  • Lioplacodes lacerdae (Hartt, 1870)
  • Lioplacodes laevigatus Yu, 1987
  • Lioplacodes lijiagouensis Yu, 1987
  • Lioplacodes limneaformis (Meek & Hayden, 1856)
  • Lioplacodes mariana Yen, 1946
  • Lioplacodes multistriata (Meek & Hayden, 1856)
  • Lioplacodes nebrascensis (Meek & Hayden, 1856)
  • Lioplacodes orientalis Yü, 1974
  • Lioplacodes praecursa (Dyer, 1930)
  • Lioplacodes sanctamariensis (Russell, 1932)
  • Lioplacodes shouchangensis Pan, 1980
  • Lioplacodes sinensis Yen, 1969
  • Lioplacodes sorgenfreii Yen, 1958
  • Lioplacodes stachei (White, 1895)
  • Lioplacodes stenotes Pan, 1980
  • Lioplacodes tenuicarinata (Meek & Hayden, 1857)
  • Lioplacodes tenuis (Warren, 1926)
  • Lioplacodes veternus (Meek & Hayden, 1861)
  • Lioplacodes wealdensis Yen, 1966
  • Lioplacodes whiteavesi (Russell, 1929)
  • Lioplacodes wichmanni (Doello-Jurado, 1922)
  • Lioplacodes williamsi (Hartt, 1870)
  • Lioplacodes xishanensis Shan, 1994
  • Lioplacodes yixianensis Yu, 1987
  • Lioplacodes yunnanensis Yu & Xi, 1977
References

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.