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The Polyplacophores, commonly called chitons, are strictly benthic mollusks, exclusively marine, characterized by a flattened body with bilateral symmetry, currently covered by a shell formed by eight superimposed dorsal plates, imbricated and articulated. Their presence in the fossil state was recognized only in the nineteenth century, while the first printed representations were made by Rondelet (Libri de Piscibus Marinis, in quibus verae Piscium effigies expressae sunt. Matthiam Bonhomme, Lugduni. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/64229 (not in copyright), 1554; Universae aquatilium Historiae pars altera, cum veris ipsorum Imaginibus. Matthiam Bonhomme, Lugduni. https://archive.org/details/ARes071032/page/n13/mode/2up (Public Domain 1.0), 1555), Gessner (Historiae Animalium Liber IIII. qui est de Piscium & quatilium animantium natura. Christoph. Froschoverum, Tiguri. https://doi.org/10.3931/e-rara-16853 (Public Domain Mark), 1558), and Aldrovandi (De Reliquis Animalibus exanguibus libri quatuor, post mortem eius editi: nemp' De Mollibus, Crustaceis, Testaceis, et Zoophytis. Apud Io: Baptistam Bellagambam, Bononie. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/119999 / Public Domain, 1606). It is our belief that the representation and description of the fish Physsalus, which accompanies the description made by Rondelet (Libri de Piscibus Marinis, in quibus verae Piscium effigies expressae sunt. Matthiam Bonhomme, Lugduni, p 428. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/64229 (not in copyright), 1554), is to be attributed to a chiton.
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Forli, M., Guerrini, A. (2022). Polyplacophora: from Physsalus, Oscabrion, to Chiton. In: The History of Fossils Over Centuries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04687-2_11
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