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<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:contributor>Jimmie DuFoe</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>J. Pojeta Jr.</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2008</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="genus-species"&gt;Echinochiton dufoei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Pojeta&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;., 2003&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;is now known from seven specimens. The new material shows the anterior end and allows for a full reconstruction of the animal. The hollow spines are circumsomal; they were flexible and perhaps moveable in rotary anterior-posterior directions. Possible functions for the hollow spines are discussed. The relationships of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="genus-species"&gt;E. dufoei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;to other chitons and to other molluscs and mollusc-like organisms are presented.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>10.4003/0740-2783-25.1.25</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>BioOne</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title> New information about Echinochiton dufoei, the Ordovician spiny chiton</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
</oai_dc:dc>