Platidia Costa 1852 (lamp shell)

Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Platidiidae

Parent taxon: Platidiinae according to M. A. Bitner and A. Müller 2017

See also Sepkoski 2002 and Williams et al. 2006

Sister taxa: Aemula, Germanoplatidia, Scumulus

Subtaxa: Platidia anomioides Platidia blowi Platidia marylandica

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Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection), Vanuatu (4)

• Pliocene of Cuba (1)

• Miocene of Bulgaria (2), Cuba (2), the Czech Republic (3), Hungary (7), Iran (2), Poland (7)

• Oligocene of Germany (3), Iran (1)

• Eocene of Austria (12), Cuba (1), Ukraine (1)

• Paleocene of Denmark (5), United States (2: Maryland, New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of the Netherlands (1)

Total: 55 collections including 56 occurrences

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