Planorbis kohaticus Eames 1952 (snail)

Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Planorbidae

Full reference: F. E. Eames. 1952. A contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: C. The description of the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda from standard sections in the Rakhi Nala and Zindar Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 236:1-168

Belongs to Planorbis according to F. E. Eames 1952

Sister taxa: Planorbis (Gyrorbis), Planorbis alienatus, Planorbis antiquitus, Planorbis austroalpinus, Planorbis bicarinata, Planorbis crista, Planorbis inflatus, Planorbis inversus, Planorbis laevigatus, Planorbis laevis, Planorbis lens, Planorbis lentus, Planorbis leucostoma, Planorbis nitidula, Planorbis pabloanus, Planorbis planulatus, Planorbis praecursor, Planorbis prevostinus, Planorbis primordialis, Planorbis rotundatus, Planorbis similaris, Planorbis sparnacensis, Planorbis spissus, Planorbis subangulata, Planorbis subangulatus, Planorbis subovatus, Planorbis vanvlecki, Planorbis vermicularis, Planorbis webbi

Type specimen: BMNH G.68464, a shell. Its type locality is Fossil Bed F.2381, Shekhan Nala, Kohat, which is in a Ypresian lacustrine limestone in the Kuldana Formation of Pakistan.

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution:

• Eocene of Pakistan (4 collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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