Abertella Durham, 1953

Mooi, Rich, Martínez, Sergio A., Del Río, Claudia J. & Ramos, Maria Inês Feijó, 2018, 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, Zootaxa 4369 (3), pp. 301-326 : 317

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.