| Heloplacidae Temporal range: Silurian |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | incertae sedis |
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†Heloplacidae Cherns, 2004 |
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The Heloplacidae are a group of plated aplacophora known from Silurian deposits. Their best understood representative, Acaenoplax, can be taken as representative of the family; it is the only genus for which soft part anatomy is known.