Tonicia Gray 1847 (chiton)

Polyplacophora - Chitonida - Chitonidae

Alternative spelling: Chiton (Tonicia)

Parent taxon: Chitoninae according to J.-M. Pacaud and J. Le Renard 1995

See also Abbott 1974, Sepkoski 2002 and Wells and Houston 2001

Sister taxa: Enoplochiton, Mucrosquama, Sypharochiton, Tegulaplax

Subtaxa: Tonicia (Lucilina) Tonicia (Toniciopsis) Tonicia pannonica Tonicia schrammi

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Panama (1 collection), Tuvalu (1)

• Pliocene of Fiji (1), the Marshall Islands (2)

• Miocene of Fiji (1), Palau (1)

• Eocene of Hungary (1)

Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence

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