Late Oligocene - Miocene non-lunulate sand dollars of South America: Revision of abertellid taxa and descriptions of two new families, two new genera, and a new species
Author
Mooi, Rich
Author
Martínez, Sergio A.
Author
Del Río, Claudia J.
Author
Ramos, Maria Inês Feijó
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-01-05
4369
3
301
326
journal article
31071
10.11646/zootaxa.4369.3.1
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1175-5326
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Genus
Abertella
Durham, 1953
1958
Karlaster
Marchesini Santos, 1958
, p. 16
Emended diagnosis.
As for the family, see above.
Type species.
Scutella aberti
Conrad, 1842
, by original designation (Durham 1 953, p. 350).
Included species.
A. aberti
(
Conrad, 1842
)
;
A. cazonesensis
Kew in
Dickerson & Kew, 1917
;
A.
?
habanensis
(Sánchez-Roig, 1949);
A. palmeri
Durham, 1957
;
A. pirabensis
(
Marchesini Santos, 1958
)
;
A. gualichensis
Martínez
et al.
, 2005
;
A. dengleri
Osborn & Ciampaglio, 2010
;
A. miskellyi
Kroh
et al.
, 2013
.
Remarks
. Of the above included species, only
A. pirabensis
,
A. gualichensis
, and
A. miskellyi
are known to occur in South American outcrops.
Abertella
?
habanensis
is provisionally listed as an
Abertella
until further information comes to light on this species.
Abertella kewi
Durham, 1957
, as listed by
Kroh
et al
. (2013)
, is hereby formally removed from
Abertella
and moved provisionally to
Camachoaster
as
Camachoaster
?
kewi
, as it no longer satisfies the emended diagnosis provided in this paper.