Basiplanus Heidelberger 2001 (snail)

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae

Full reference: D. Heidelberger. 2001. Mitteldevonische (Givetische) Gastropoden (Mollusca) aus der Lahnmulde (suedliches Rheinisches Schiefergebirge). Geologische Abhandlungen Hessen 106:1-291

Parent taxon: Platyceratidae according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Heidelberger 2001

Sister taxa: Barynema, Brokenriveria, Cancellator, Cancelloplatyceras, Compsonema, Crossoceras, Cyclonema, Devononema, Dyeria, Euthyrhachis, Globulonema, Himantonia, Lotzia, Naticellina, Naticonema, Naticonoda, Natirhenia, Nonorios, Obscuropsis, Paffrathia, Palaeocapulus, Platyceras, Platyostoma, Platyschisma, Ploconema, Praenatica, Pseudoplatyceras, Pseudorthonychiinae, Ptychospirina, Radvanospira, Rhabdocantha, Spinyplatyceras, Spiranodus, Spironemella, Strophostylus, Strotostoma, Stuckenbergispira, Tachloconcha

Subtaxa: Basiplanus baldus

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Ecology: passively mobile epifaunal coprophage

Distribution: found only at Gastropods of the Lahn Basin Limestones: Hahnstaetten (back-reef) (Devonian of Germany)

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