Platyschisma rotundatum Morris 1845 (snail)

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae

Full reference: J. Morris. 1845. Descriptions of fossils, Mollusca. Physical descriptions of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land 270-290

Belongs to Platyschisma according to J. D. Dana 1849

See also M'Coy 1847 and Morris 1845

Sister taxa: Platyschisma ambiguum, Platyschisma applanatum, Platyschisma barrisi, Platyschisma cirroides, Platyschisma depressa, Platyschisma depressum, Platyschisma helicoides, Platyschisma infima, Platyschisma laudoni, Platyschisma lingua, Platyschisma missouriensis, Platyschisma ovoidea, Platyschisma vitrea

Type specimen: Its type locality is Harper's Hill (Strzelecki coll), which is in a Sakmarian coastal sandstone in the Allandale Formation of Australia

Ecology: passively mobile epifaunal coprophage

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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