Family Chitonidae Rafinesque 1815 (chiton)

Polyplacophora - Chitonida - Chitonidae

Parent taxon: Acanthochitonina according to Y. Wu and D. E. Lee 2024

See also Abbott 1974, Beesley 1998, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Schwabe and Lozouet 2006, Smith 1973 and Vendrasco et al. 2022

Sister taxa: Acanthochitonidae, Ischnochitonidae, Loricidae

Subtaxa: Acanthopleurinae Chiton Chitoninae Onithochiton Toniciinae

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Chile (2), Italy (1), Panama (1), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (1), Tuvalu (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (2: California)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1)

• Pliocene of Fiji (1), Italy (5), the Marshall Islands (2), South Africa (4)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1)

• Miocene of Fiji (1), Palau (1), Slovakia (1), United States (1: California)

• Oligocene of New Zealand (1), United States (2: Washington)

• Eocene of France (3), Hungary (1), United States (5: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Washington)

• Paleocene of United States (1: Texas)

• Cretaceous of Italy (1), Puerto Rico (2), United States (3: Georgia, Tennessee)

• Jurassic of France (3), the United Kingdom (1)

• Permian of the United Kingdom (2)

Total: 57 collections including 60 occurrences

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