† 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.