Plaxiphora Gray 1847 (chiton)
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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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