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Chitonida
| Description | Chitonida is an order of chitons. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitonida, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Polyplacophora : Chitonida | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Chitonida | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitonida |
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Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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 Acanthochitonidaefamily | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 41 | 38.0 Ma Eocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Callistoplacidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 35 | 33.9 Ma Oligocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Callochitonidae β family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Chaetopleuridae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 12 | 23.0 Ma Miocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Chitonidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 52 | 260 Ma Permian | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Choriplacidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 388 Ma Middle Devonian | 388 Ma Middle Devonian | |
| Cryptoplacidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Hemiarthridae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Ischnochitionidae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Ischnochitonidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 96 | 199 Ma Early Jurassic | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Lepidochitonidae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Loricidae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Makarenkoplacidae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Mopaliidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 51 | 5.33 Ma Miocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Ochmazochitonidae β family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 4 | 279 Ma Permian | 272 Ma Permian | |
| Schizochitonidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 11 | 70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Schizoplacidae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Spinochitonidae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Tonicellidae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
References
| Sirenko B.I. 1993. Revision of the system of the order Chitonida (Molluscs: Polyplacophora) on the basis of correlation between the type of gills arrangement and the shape of the chorion processes. Ruthenica 3: 93-117 [In Russian] - via World Register of Marine Species |
| An outline for the classification of Phylum Mollusca in taxonomic databases [report elaborated by WoRMS editors for internal use, june 2010] - via World Register of Marine Species |
| Sirenko B.I. 1993. Revision of the system of the order Chitonida (Molluscs: Polyplacophora) on the basis of correlation between the type of gills arrangement and the shape of the chorion processes. Ruthenica 3: 93-117 [In Russian] - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) |
| WoRMS (2016) Accessed through World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/ - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas |
| An outline for the classification of Phylum Mollusca in taxonomic databases [report elaborated by WoRMS editors for internal use, june 2010] - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) |
| Le Renard, J. (2016) CLEMAM: Check List of European Marine Mollusca. Online: http://www.somali.asso.fr/clemam/index.clemam.html - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
