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Journal of Paleontology; July 2003; v. 77; no. 4; p. 646-654; DOI: 10.1666/0022-3360(2003)077<0646:EDANSO>2.0.CO;2
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ECHINOCHITON DUFOEI: A NEW SPINY ORDOVICIAN CHITON

JOHN POJETA, Jr.1, D. J. EERNISSE2, R. D. HOARE3 and M. D. HENDERSON4

1 U.S. Geological Survey, Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560
2 Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Fullerton, California 92834
3 Department of Geology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403
4 Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford, Illinois 61103

Echinochiton dufoei new genus and species is described from the Ordovician age Forreston Member, Grand Detour Formation (Blackriveran) near Beloit, Wisconsin. For a variety of reasons, we regard E. dufoei as a chiton; the species is known from four articulated or partially articulated specimens, one of which has eight plates and two of which have a mucro on the tail plate. Echinochiton dufoei differs from other chitons in having large hollow spines that project from each of the known plates. In plate shape and position, E. dufoei is much like the Upper Cambrian species Matthevia variabilis Walcott, 1885, and the Lower Ordovician species Chelodes whitehousei Runnegar, Pojeta, Taylor, and Collins (1979).




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