Callistochiton

Callistochiton
Temporal range: Miocene–Pliocene[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Polyplacophora
Order: Neoloricata
Family: Ischnochitonidae
Subfamily: Ischnochitoninae
Genus: Callistochiton
Dall, 1879

Callistochiton is a genus of polyplacophoran mollusc, alive today, of which fossils are known from the Pliocene period onwards.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6.
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