Platyschisma ovoidea Phillips 1836 (snail)

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae

Alternative combination: Pleurotomaria ovoidea

Full reference: J. Phillips. 1836. Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire; or, a description of the strata and organic remains; accompanied by a geological map, sections and diagrams, and figures of the fossils 1-236

Belongs to Platyschisma according to L. G. de Koninck 1881

See also Phillips 1836

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 rotundatum, Platyschisma vitrea

Ecology: passively mobile epifaunal coprophage

Distribution: found only at Bolland, Yorkshire (= Queensbury, Bradford) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

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