Eochiton Smith and Toomey 1964 (chiton)

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

Parent taxon: Gotlandochitonidae according to A. G. Smith and D. F. Toomey 1964

Sister taxa: Gotlandochiton, Ivoechiton, Paleochiton

Subtaxa: Eochiton arbucklensis

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Mill Creek Section, 6 miles WSW of Mill Creek village, upper mound interval ( of Oklahoma)

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