Calloplax roederi Vendrasco et al. 2022 (chiton)

Polyplacophora - Neoloricata - Chaetopleuridae

Full reference: M. J. Vendrasco, C. L. Powell, II, and P. LaFollette. 2022. The first Miocene chiton fauna from the northeastern Pacific. Journal of Paleontology 96(5):1047-1060

Belongs to Calloplax according to M. J. Vendrasco et al. 2022

Sister taxon: Calloplax janeirensis

Type specimen: LACMIP 43085.47, a valve (tail valve). Its type locality is Super Creek "Imperial" Formation, which is in a Messinian marine siltstone in the "Imperial" Formation of California.

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Super Creek "Imperial" Formation

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