Halwaxiida
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Halwaxiida is a proposed clade equivalent to the older orders Sachitida He 1980 and Thambetolepidea Jell 1981, loosely uniting scale-bearing Cambrian animals, which may lie in the stem group to mollus
Halkieria uncropped
Artist's impression of Orthrozanclus
Mollusca
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Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks. 86,600 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum
Halwaxiida
…showed no sign of the regular segmentation that is a feature of polychaetes. Instead he thought Wiwaxia was very similar to shell-less aplacophoran molluscs, that it must have moved on a mollusc-like muscular foot, and that its feeding apparatus looked like a primitive form of the molluscan radula, a…
Cornu aspersum (formerly Helix aspersa)—a common land snail
Shell of Marisa cornuarietis, a freshwater snail
Fossilized ammonite displayed at the National Museum of the Philippines
Diversity and variability of shells of molluscs on display