Lepidocoleidae

Lepidocoleidae is a family of polychaetes belonging to the order Phyllodocida.

Lepidocoleidaes have an armor-like exoskeleton that consists of large enclosed mineralized calcite plates with two different crystalline layers with both rugae and growth lines on their external surface.

Gügel, De Baets, K., Jerjen, I., Schuetz, P., & Klug, C. (2017).

A new subdisarticulated machaeridian from the Middle Devonian of China: Insights into taphonomy and taxonomy using X-ray microtomography and 3D-analysis.

Pereira, Colmenar, J., Mortier, J., Vanmeirhaeghe, J., Verniers, J., Štorch, P., Taylor Harper, D. A., & Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C. (2021).