Puchalski, S. S., D. J. Eernisse, and C. C. Johnson. 2008. The effect of sampling bias on the fossil record of chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora). American Malacological Bulletin, 25: 87-96.
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The following is an example of
one of the 2682 fossil lot entries
transposed for web viewing:
| Fields | Example |
| working file_ID | 6990 |
| SUBCLASS | Neoloricata |
| SUBCLASS_MODIFIER | |
| ORDER | Chitonida |
| ORDER_MOD | |
| SUBORDER | Chitonina |
| FAMILY | Callistoplacidae |
| FAMILY_MODIFIER | |
| GENUS | Callistochiton |
| GENUS_MOD | |
| SPECIES | palmulatus |
| SPECIES_MODIFIER | sub |
| SUBSPECIES | mirabilis |
| SCIENTIFIC_NAME | Callistochiton palmulatus |
| overall valid | valid |
| OCCUR_AUTHOR | Lipps; Valentine; Mitchell |
| OCCUR_DATE | 1968 |
| OCCUR_CITATION | J Paleo 42(2): 297 (Table 1) |
| PARENTH1 | |
| AUTHOR | Pilsbry |
| DATE | 1893 |
| PARENTH2 | |
| CITATION | Man Conch 14: 263-264 |
| TAXONOMIC_COMMENTS | |
| PUBLICATION_REASON | stratigraphy |
| LOCATION_CLASS | other |
| LOCATION_DETAILS | Sandy lenses of lower (25-30 ft) terrace; Sangamonian interglacial; Pleistocene: LACMP loc. 327; southeastern coast of Santa Barbara Island; Channel Islands; California; USA. |
| COUNTRY | United States |
| GEOGRAPHIC_REGION | North America |
| ERA | Ceno |
| STRATA_PERIOD | U |
| PERIOD | Ne |
| STRATA_EPOCH | M |
| EPOCH | Pleistocene |
| ARTICULATION | N |
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