Lepidopleurus clifdenensis Ashby, 1929

Wilma M. Blom, 2017, Fossil and Recent molluscan types in the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Part 2: Polyplacophora and Scaphopoda, Records of the Auckland Museum 52, pp. 71-76 : 72

† Lepidopleurus clifdenensis Ashby, 1929

Ashby, E., 1929. New Zealand fossil Polyplacophora (Chitons). Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 60: 366‒369 [367, 368], pl. 32, figs 8a and b (holotype).

Holotype: MA70394 , Figure 1a, b, a single incomplete median valve collected from Middle Miocene (Clifdenian) Slip Point Siltstone [Finlay’s bed 6C (for correlation see Fleming et al., 1969)] at Clifden , Southland, New Zealand.

Remarks: Ashby (1929) published the locality as ‘Clifden (Band 6A)’, but the two Finlay labels accompanying the specimen have the locality recorded as Clifden 6C.

C urrent name: Leptochiton clifdenensis ( Ashby, 1929) ‒ Maxwell in: Spencer et al. (2009): 233.

Figures

Figure 1. a, b, Lepidopleurus clifdenensis Ashby, 1926, holotype, incomplete median valve exterior and interior views; c, d, Callochiton chattonensis Ashby, 1929, holotype, med ian valve exterior and interior views;e, Acanthochiton brookesi Ashby, 1926, holotype, anterior, median and posterior valves exterior view; f, g, Acanthochites (Loboplax) mariae Webster, 1908, holotype, complete, dried specimen dorsal and left lateral views;h, Notoplax (Amblyplax) mariae haurakiensis Ashby, 1926, holotype, anterior, median and posterior valves exterior view; i, Loboplax ashbyi Laws, 1932, holotype, median valve exterior view; j, Cadulus teliger Finlay, 1926, holotype, lateral view. Specimens e and h oriented with posterior at the top; all others with anterior at the top. Scale bar 1 mm unless otherwise indicated.