Paffrathia Frýda 2000 (snail)

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae

Full reference: J. Frýda. 2000. Some new Givetian (Late Middle Devonian) gastropods from the Paffrath area (Bergisches Land, Germany). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45(2):359-374

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

See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Heidelberger 2001 and Heidelberger and Koch 2005

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

Subtaxa: Paffrathia aarica Paffrathia lotzi

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Ecology: passively mobile epifaunal coprophage

Distribution:

• Devonian of Germany (4 collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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