Paleoloricata

Paleoloricata; Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Polyplacophora
Order:	†Paleoloricata; Bergenhayn, 1955
Included families
	Suborder Chelodina ; Chelodidae ; Scanochitonidae; Suborder Septemchitonina ; Septemochitonidae; Other families ; Mattheviidae Walcott, 1885 ; Aulochitonidae Pojeta et al, 2010 ;

The Paleoloricata are valved polyplacophora without sutural laminae or insertion plates (as found in the neoloricata). The "order" probably represents a paraphyletic grouping.

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