Plaxiphora Gray 1847 (chiton)

Polyplacophora - Neoloricata - Mopaliidae

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

See also Sepkoski 2002 and Wells and Houston 2001

Sister taxa: Amicula, Heterochitoninae, Katharina, Katharininae, Mopalia, Mopaliinae, Placiphorella

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Cosy Dell Farm (Oligocene of New Zealand)

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