''Tryblidium reticulatum'' is an extinct species of a paleozoic

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 ...

monoplacophora Monoplacophora , meaning "bearing one plate", is a polyphyletic superclass of molluscs with a cap-like shell inhabiting deep sea environments . Extant representatives were not recognized as such until 1952; previously they were known only from ...

n. This species have been discovered and originally described by

Gustaf Lindström Gustaf Lindström (27 August 1829 – 16 May 1901) was a Sweden, Swedish paleontologist. He was born in Visby on Gotland. In 1848 he entered Uppsala University, and in 1854 he took his doctor's degree. Having attended a course of lectures in ...

from Silurian of

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in Sweden in 1880. It lived in shallow water.

Shell description

The length of the shell is 43 mm, width 31 mm and the height of the shell is 10 mm. There are visible muscular attachment scars on the ventral view.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q7848448 Prehistoric monoplacophorans Molluscs described in 1880