Schizochitonidae Dall, 1889
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Schizochitonidae Dall, 1889 |
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Family Schizochitonidae Dall, 1889 View in CoL
Genus Schizochiton Gray, 1847
Type species. Chiton incisus Sowerby, 1841 , by monotypy.
Distribution. Schizochiton is known from the Paleocene to Miocene and the Recent. Only two living species are known, Schizochiton incisus ( Sowerby, 1841) from the Red Sea up to Philippines and Indonesia, and S. jousseaumei Dupuis, 1917 from the Gulf of Aden. The fossil record includes the Paleocene of Belgium and Ukraine ( Makarenko 1976), the Eocene of Ukraine ( Bielokrys 1999), the Oligocene (Rupelian) of France ( Dell’Angelo et al. 2018a), and the Miocene of W. Pacific Islands ( Ladd 1966).
Remarks. The main characters of the species here discussed are summarized in Tab. 16.
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