Polyplacophora - Paleoloricata
Full reference: J.R.M. Bergenhayn. 1960. Cambrian and Ordovician loricates from North America. Journal of Paleontology 34(2):168-178
Parent taxon: Paleoloricata according to B. Runnegar et al. 1979
See also Hoare 2002
Sister taxa: Alastega, Arctoplax, Aulochitonidae, Bursata, Cobcrephora, Echinochitonidae, Enetoplax, Hawthorneachiton, Heloplax, Mattheviidae, Plectrochiton, Priscochiton, Probolaeum, Septemchiton, Septemchitonida, Solenocaris, Thairoplax
Subtaxa: Gotlandochitonidae Helminthochitonidae Preacanthochitonidae Scanochitonidae Septemchitonidae
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Sweden (3 collections)
• Permian of Greece (1), United States (2: Nevada)
• Carboniferous of United States (5: Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas)
• Devonian of Australia (1), Germany (2), the United Kingdom (2)
• Silurian of Sweden (1), United States (1: California)
• Dobrotivian of the Czech Republic (1)
• Ordovician of the Czech Republic (1), Poland (2), United States (11: Kentucky, Oklahoma)
• Cambrian of United States (3: Missouri, Utah)
Total: 36 collections including 43 occurrences