Polyplacophora - Paleoloricata

Full reference: M. D. Sutton, D. E. G. Briggs, D. J. Siveter, D. J. Siveter, and J. D. Sigwart. 2012. A Silurian armoured aplacophoran and implications for molluscan phylogeny. Nature 490(7418):94-97

Parent taxon: Paleoloricata according to M. D. Sutton et al. 2025

See also Sutton et al. 2012

Sister taxa: Alastega, Arctoplax, Aulochitonidae, Bursata, Chelodina, Cobcrephora, Echinochitonidae, Hawthorneachiton, Mattheviidae, Phthipodochiton, Plectrochiton, Priscochiton, Probolaeum, Septemchiton, Septemchitonida, Solenocaris, Thairoplax

Subtaxa: Kulindroplax perissokomos

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Type: Kulindroplax perissokomos

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Herefordshire Konservat-Lagerstätte (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

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