Colapterochiton decorus Hoare and Mapes 1985 (chiton)

Polyplacophora - Neoloricata - Lepidopleuridae

Full reference: R. D. Hoare and R. H. Mapes. 1985. New Mississippian and Pennsylvanian Polyplacophora (Mollusca) from North America. Journal of Paleontology 59(4):875-881

Belongs to Colapterochiton according to R. D. Hoare and R. H. Mapes 1985

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: OSU-36992. Its type locality is East-west trending gullies on the east side of an unnamed tributary of Sycamore Creek on the Daube Ranch, which is in a Morrowan carbonate limestone in the Golf Course Formation of Oklahoma.

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of United States (2: Oklahoma, Texas collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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