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The carnivorous snails have tongues that are covered with thousands of tiny teeth to tear apart food. The gastropod fossils from Jacksboro, TX shown below are from the Pennsylvanian, Finis formation, and these gastropods lived about 300 million years ago.
There are 5 main classes of mollusks, and two smaller classes that most people have never heard of. The principle classes are: Gastropoda (gastropods) - snails, slugs, conchs, whelks, cowries, etc. Bivalvia (bivalves) - clams, mussels, oysters, cockles, scallops, etc. just now. Report Abuse. The living mollusks are placed into seven classes (some workers combine the Solenogastres and Caudofoveata into a single class called Aplacophora): Solenogastres Caudofaveata Polyplacophora Scaphopoda Cephalopoda Bivalvia Gastropoda There are over 50,000 different types of mollusks alive today.