Polyplacophora - Neoloricata - Acanthochitonidae
Parent taxon: Acanthochitonidae according to G. Rosenberg 2005
See also Abbott 1974, Berry 1922, Ladd 1966, Sepkoski 2002 and Wells and Houston 2001
Sister taxa: Acanthochitoninae, Bassethullia, Callistochitoninae, Craspedochiton, Cryptochiton, Cryptoconchus, Cryptoplax, Leptoplax, Notoplax
Subtaxa: Acanthochitona avicula Acanthochitona crinita Acanthochitona fascicularis Acanthochitona pygmaea
Type: Chiton fascicularis
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection), United States (3: California, Florida)
• Pliocene of Italy (3), the Marshall Islands (1)
• Miocene of the Marshall Islands (2), Slovakia (1)
Total: 11 collections including 12 occurrences
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