Parent taxon: Chitonida according to Y. Wu and D. E. Lee 2024
See also Abbott 1974 and Pacaud and Le Renard 1995
Sister taxon: Callistoplacidae
Subtaxa: Acanthochitonidae Chitonidae Ischnochitonidae Loricidae
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Chile (2), Italy (1), Mexico (9), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (1), Tuvalu (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (41: Alaska, California, Florida)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Africa (1)
• Pliocene of Fiji (1), Italy (6), the Marshall Islands (3), South Africa (4), United States (3: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Fiji (1), Japan (1), the Marshall Islands (5), Palau (1), Slovakia (1), United States (1: California)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (1), United States (3: Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of United States (2: Washington)
• Eocene of France (3), Hungary (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (8: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Washington)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Texas)
• Cretaceous of Italy (1), Puerto Rico (2), United States (3: Georgia, Tennessee)
• Jurassic of France (3), Germany (1), Italy (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Permian of the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 127 collections including 235 occurrences