Polyplacophora - Chitonida - Chitonidae
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Parent taxon: Chitonidae according to E. Schwabe and P. Lozouet 2006
See also Abbott 1974, Pacaud and Le Renard 1995, Sepkoski 2002, Smith 1973, Vendrasco et al. 2022 and Wells and Houston 2001
Sister taxa: Acanthopleurinae, Chitoninae, Onithochiton, Toniciinae
Subtaxa: Chiton (Amaurochiton) Chiton (Chiton) Chiton (Poeciloplax) Chiton (Rhyssoplax) Chiton alveolus Chiton antiquus Chiton cordatus Chiton deshayesi Chiton eocenensis Chiton grignionensis Chiton howseanus Chiton koninckii Chiton rhaeticus Chiton sallustii Chiton solaris Chiton turberculatus
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Chile (2 collections), Italy (1), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (1), the United Kingdom (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1)
• Pliocene of Italy (5), South Africa (4)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1)
• Miocene of Slovakia (1), United States (1: California)
• Oligocene of United States (2: Washington)
• Eocene of France (3), United States (5: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Washington)
• 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: 44 collections including 46 occurrences
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