Tonicia Gray 1847 (chiton)
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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
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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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