Ptychomphalina dickinsi Swart 1998 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae

Full reference: R. H. Swart. 1998. Revision of Permian pleurotomarian gastropods from the Carnarvon and Bonaparte basins, Western Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 110(1/2):163-172

Belongs to Ptychomphalina according to R. H. Swart 1998

Sister taxa: Ptychomphalina angulata, Ptychomphalina banschangensis, Ptychomphalina brondensis, Ptychomphalina cancellata, Ptychomphalina canovana, Ptychomphalina convivens, Ptychomphalina cuneoi, Ptychomphalina discoidea, Ptychomphalina fasciata, Ptychomphalina inexpectata, Ptychomphalina lucina, Ptychomphalina magna, Ptychomphalina moscardii, Ptychomphalina protei, Ptychomphalina regulata, Ptychomphalina regulosa, Ptychomphalina reticuloidea, Ptychomphalina sabattinii, Ptychomphalina taramellii, Ptychomphalina testis, Ptychomphalina tieni, Ptychomphalina toyomensis, Ptychomphalina trinchesil, Ptychomphalina turgentis, Ptychomphalina vesiculosa

Type specimen: CPC 34941, a shell. Its type locality is BMR GW54, Bush Creek, Dairy Creek Homestead, which is in an Artinskian coastal siliciclastic in the Coyrie Formation of Australia.

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at BMR GW54, Bush Creek, Dairy Creek Homestead

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