Polyplacophora - Paleoloricata - Helminthochitonidae
Full reference: G. F. Whidborne. 1892. A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the south of England. Volume I - Part IV. The fauna of the limestones of Lummaton, Wolborough, Chircombe Bridge, and Chudleigh. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 45:251-335
Belongs to Helminthochiton according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Whidborne 1892
Sister taxa: Helminthochiton griffithi, Helminthochiton riddlei, Helminthochiton simplex
Type specimen: Its type locality is Lummaton Quarries, West of St. Mary Church, Lummaton Parrish, Torquay, which is in a Givetian carbonate limestone in the Torquay Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Devonian of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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