Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Full reference: J. D. Dana. 1847. Descriptions of fossil shells of the collections of the exploring expedition under the command of Charles Wilkes, USN, obtained in Australia, from the lower layers of the coal formation in Illawarra, and from a deposit probably of nearly the same age at Harper's Hill, Valley of the Hunter. American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series 4:151-160
Belongs to Platyschisma according to J. D. Dana 1849
See also Dana 1847
Sister taxa: Platyschisma ambiguum, Platyschisma applanatum, Platyschisma barrisi, Platyschisma cirroides, Platyschisma depressa, Platyschisma helicoides, Platyschisma infima, Platyschisma laudoni, Platyschisma lingua, Platyschisma missouriensis, Platyschisma ovoidea, Platyschisma rotundatum, Platyschisma vitrea
Type specimen: Its type locality is Wollongong Point, Illawarra (USNM coll), which is in a Wordian coastal siliciclastic in the Gerringong Formation of Australia
Ecology: passively mobile epifaunal coprophage
Distribution: found only at Wollongong Point, Illawarra (USNM coll)
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