Polyplacophora - Paleoloricata - Gotlandochitonidae
Full reference: A. G. Smith and D. F. Toomey. 1964. Chitons from the Kindblade Formation (Lower Ordovician), Arbuckle Mountains, southern Oklahoma. Oklahoma Geological Survey Circular 1-41
Belongs to Paleochiton according to A. G. Smith and D. F. Toomey 1964
Sister taxon: Paleochiton siskiyouensis
Type specimen: OU 5211, a valve. Its type locality is Mill Creek Section, 6 miles WSW of Mill Creek village, upper mound interval, which is in a Jefferson reef, buildup or bioherm wackestone/reef rocks in the Kindblade Formation of Oklahoma.
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer
Distribution: found only at Mill Creek Section, 6 miles WSW of Mill Creek village, upper mound interval
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