Platyceras attenuatum Hall 1859 (snail)

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae

Full reference: J. Hall. 1859. Notes and observations upon the fossils of the Goniatite Limestone, in the Marcellus shale of the Hamilton group, and those of the Goniatite beds of Rockford, Indiana, with some analogous forms from the Hamilton Group proper. Annual report of the Regents of the University of the State of New York on the State Cabinet of Natural History and the Historical and Antiquarian collection annexed thereto 13:95-112

Belongs to Platyceras according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Hall 1859 and Hall 1879

Sister taxa: Platyceras (Euthyrachis), Platyceras (Platyceras), Platyceras (Tubomphalus), Platyceras (Visitator), Platyceras abundans, Platyceras ammon, Platyceras angulatum, Platyceras angustum, Platyceras argo, Platyceras auriculatum, Platyceras billingsi, Platyceras bistrami, Platyceras bucculentum, Platyceras callossum, Platyceras canalicatum, Platyceras carinatum, Platyceras chapmani, Platyceras colonus, Platyceras columbinus, Platyceras compressum, Platyceras compressum, Platyceras compressus, Platyceras conradi, Platyceras contortum, Platyceras contortus, Platyceras cordatus, Platyceras crassum, Platyceras cymbium, Platyceras decorum, Platyceras dilatans, Platyceras dilatatum, Platyceras disciforme, Platyceras dormitans, Platyceras duriculatum, Platyceras eberti, Platyceras echinatum, Platyceras edmundi, Platyceras elongatum, Platyceras encloides, Platyceras erectum, Platyceras evolutus, Platyceras expansus, Platyceras fecundum, Platyceras galeritus, Platyceras gaspense, Platyceras gibbosum, Platyceras glenparkensis, Platyceras gracilis, Platyceras guesnini, Platyceras hainensis, Platyceras haliotis, Platyceras haliotoides, Platyceras hebes, Platyceras holzapfeli, Platyceras humulus, Platyceras kahlebergensis, Platyceras khammonense, Platyceras laevicostatum, Platyceras latum, Platyceras leboutillieri, Platyceras lejeunii, Platyceras magnificum, Platyceras mansfieldense, Platyceras marylandicum, Platyceras minutum, Platyceras multiplicatus, Platyceras munsteriana, Platyceras nasutum, Platyceras nettersheimensis, Platyceras niagarensis, Platyceras nodosum, Platyceras oehlerti, Platyceras oxynotum, Platyceras paralium, Platyceras patelliforme, Platyceras pericompsus, Platyceras perneri, Platyceras platystomum, Platyceras plicatile, Platyceras priscum, Platyceras producti, Platyceras pulcherrimum, Platyceras rarispinum, Platyceras reflexum, Platyceras richtum, Platyceras rictum, Platyceras robustum, Platyceras romingeri, Platyceras sagum, Platyceras sigmoidale, Platyceras sinuatum, Platyceras spirale, Platyceras squamosus, Platyceras steinmanni, Platyceras subrotundum, Platyceras subumbonatum, Platyceras symmetricum, Platyceras tenella, Platyceras terminalis, Platyceras thetiforme, Platyceras thetis, Platyceras trilobatum, Platyceras trojani, Platyceras uncinatus, Platyceras undata, Platyceras undulatum, Platyceras unicus, Platyceras ussheri, Platyceras verrucosum, Platyceras vetusta, Platyceras villmarensis, Platyceras yochelsoni, Platyceras zinkeni

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal parasite

Distribution: found only at Zone E. Deer Run Gorge, 3.25 miles north of Dublin (Devonian of Ohio)

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