''Notoplax rubiginosa'' is a species of chiton in the family Acanthochitonidae, native to

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

. The species grows to long and wide. ''N. rubiginosa'' is known as the most common chiton from the

Plio-Pleistocene The Plio-Pleistocene is an informally described geological pseudo-period, which begins about 5 million years ago (Mya) and, drawing forward, combines the time ranges of the formally defined Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs—marking from about 5&nb ...

in fossil records of New Zealand.

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Chitons of New Zealand rubiginosa Molluscs described in 1872 {{chiton-stub