Subfamily Leptochitoninae Dall 1889 (chiton)
Polyplacophora - Neoloricata - Leptochitonidae
Parent taxon: Leptochitonidae according to J.-M. Pacaud and J. Le Renard 1995
Sister taxa: Gifuchiton, Leptochiton, Pterochiton
Subtaxa: Lepidopleurus
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection), United States (2: California)
• Miocene of Germany (1), New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (1: Washington)
• Eocene of Ukraine (1)
Total: 8 collections including 11 occurrences