Polyplacophora - Neoloricata - Cymatochitonidae

Alternative combination: Pterochiton texanus

Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1909. The Guadalupian fauna. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 58:1-651

Belongs to Cymatochiton according to A. G. Smith and R. D. Hoare 1987

See also Girty 1909 and Hoare and Smith 1984

Sister taxa: Cymatochiton kaibabensis, Cymatochiton loftusianus

Type specimen: Its type locality is USGS 2969 green, southern Delaware Mountains, which is in a Roadian/Capitanian reef, buildup or bioherm limestone in the Delaware Mountain Formation of Texas

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at USGS 2969 green, southern Delaware Mountains

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