Platyceras tenella Dana 1847

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae

Alternative combinations: Capulus tenellus, Patella tenella, Pileopsis tenella

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 Platyceras according to H.O. Fletcher 1958

See also Dana 1847, Dana 1849 and Wanner 1922

Sister taxa: Platyceras (Euthyrachis), Platyceras (Platyceras), Platyceras (Tubomphalus), Platyceras (Visitator), Platyceras abundans, Platyceras ammon, Platyceras angulatum, Platyceras angustum, Platyceras argo, Platyceras attenuatum, Platyceras auriculatum, Platyceras billingsi, Platyceras bistrami, Platyceras bucculentum, Platyceras callossum, Platyceras canalicatum, Platyceras carinatum, Platyceras chapmani, Platyceras colonus, Platyceras columbinus, Platyceras compressum, Platyceras compressum, Platyceras compressus, Platyceras conradi, Platyceras contortum, Platyceras contortus, Platyceras cordatus, Platyceras crassum, Platyceras cymbium, Platyceras decorum, Platyceras dilatans, Platyceras dilatatum, Platyceras disciforme, Platyceras dormitans, Platyceras duriculatum, Platyceras eberti, Platyceras echinatum, Platyceras edmundi, Platyceras elongatum, Platyceras encloides, Platyceras erectum, Platyceras evolutus, Platyceras expansus, Platyceras fecundum, Platyceras galeritus, Platyceras gaspense, Platyceras gibbosum, Platyceras glenparkensis, Platyceras gracilis, Platyceras guesnini, Platyceras hainensis, Platyceras haliotis, Platyceras haliotoides, Platyceras hebes, Platyceras holzapfeli, Platyceras humulus, Platyceras kahlebergensis, Platyceras khammonense, Platyceras laevicostatum, Platyceras latum, Platyceras leboutillieri, Platyceras lejeunii, Platyceras magnificum, Platyceras mansfieldense, Platyceras marylandicum, Platyceras minutum, Platyceras multiplicatus, Platyceras munsteriana, Platyceras nasutum, Platyceras nettersheimensis, Platyceras niagarensis, Platyceras nodosum, Platyceras oehlerti, Platyceras oxynotum, Platyceras paralium, Platyceras patelliforme, Platyceras pericompsus, Platyceras perneri, Platyceras platystomum, Platyceras plicatile, Platyceras priscum, Platyceras producti, Platyceras pulcherrimum, Platyceras rarispinum, Platyceras reflexum, Platyceras richtum, Platyceras rictum, Platyceras robustum, Platyceras romingeri, Platyceras sagum, Platyceras sigmoidale, Platyceras sinuatum, Platyceras spirale, Platyceras squamosus, Platyceras steinmanni, Platyceras subrotundum, Platyceras subumbonatum, Platyceras symmetricum, Platyceras terminalis, Platyceras thetiforme, Platyceras thetis, Platyceras trilobatum, Platyceras trojani, Platyceras uncinatus, Platyceras undata, Platyceras undulatum, Platyceras unicus, Platyceras ussheri, Platyceras verrucosum, Platyceras vetusta, Platyceras villmarensis, Platyceras yochelsoni, Platyceras zinkeni

Type specimen: Its type locality is Harper's Hill, Hunter Valley (USNM coll), which is in a Sakmarian marine limestone in the Allandale Formation of Australia

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (1 collection), Indonesia (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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