Micropilina
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Micropilina is a genus of monoplacophoran; in addition to a number of living, deep-sea species, it also includes a shallow water fossil from the middle Pleistocene
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene is the epoch from 2,588,000 to 11,700 years BP that spans the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....

 of Italy - and as such the only fossil representative of this lineage after the Devonian.

Species

Species in the genus Micropilina include:

fossil species:
recent species:
  • Micropilina arntzi Warén & Hain, 1992
  • Micropilina minuta Warén, 1989
  • Micropilina rakiura Marshall, 1998
  • Micropilina reingi Marshall, 2006
  • Micropilina tangaroa Marshall, 1992
  • Micropilina wareni Marshall, 2006
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