Lorica (genus)

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Lorica
Temporal range: Cretaceous–Recent[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Polyplacophora
Order: Neoloricata
Family: Schizochitonidae
Genus: Lorica
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1852
Species
  • L. haurakiensis Mestayer, 1921
  • L. volvox (Reeve, 1847)

Lorica is a genus of chitons in the family Schizochitonidae.[1]

Species

L. haurakiensis

This species is rare.

L. volvox

Extinct representatives

Extinct representatives of the genus are known from the Cretaceous of America and the Eocene & Miocene of Oceania.<

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 van Belle, R. A. (1981). Catalogue of Fossil Chitons. ISBN 90 6279 018 6. 


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