Stromboidea

• Rostellariidae
  • Platyoptera Conrad, 1855

Description of Platyoptera by Conrad, 1855, p. 260:

• "Shell with a profoundly expanded labrum which is entire, or without a rostrum, and with the margin very thin and acute."

Type species of Platyoptera is Platyoptera extenta (Conrad in Wailes, 1854)

Platyoptera species are

• Platyoptera cherokeensis Garvie, 2013
• Platyoptera extenta (Conrad in Wailes, 1854)
• Platyoptera pacifica Squires & Demetrion, 1990

Comment:

• Compare Platyoptera with Chedevillia (UW)

History and Synyonymy

Platyoptera Conrad, 1855:260

• non Platyoptera [probably R.R von Dombrowski, A. R. von Guttenberg & G.A.O. Henschel, 1886; junior homonym, Chiroptera, bats]

References

• T.A. Conrad - Observations on the Eocene deposit of Jackson, Mississippi, with the descriptions of thirty-four new species of shells and corals (Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Vol. VII 1854, 1855), Fulltext
• Garvie, C.L. 2013. New Eocene Mollusca from the Collections of the Texas Natural Science Center; Bulletins of American Paleontology, Vol. 384, p. 163
• Squires & Demetrion, 1990
• R.R von Dombrowski, A. R. von Guttenberg & G.A.O. Henschel, 1886. Allgemeine Encyklopädie der gesammten Forst- und Jagdwissenschaften. Unter Mitwirkung der bedeutendsten Fachautoritäten. 1886-1894, Vol. 3; Wien, p. 591, Fulltext