Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Alternative combination: Diaphorostoma insolitum
Full reference: C. L. Webster. 1906. Description of new species of gastropods from the lower and middle beds of the Hackberry Group. Iowa Naturalist 2:1-4
Belongs to Platyostoma according to P. J. Wagner 2022
See also Fenton and Fenton 1924 and Webster 1906
Sister taxa: Platyostoma (Platyostoma), Platyostoma adstrictum, Platyostoma allardycei, Platyostoma antiquuis, Platyostoma boggsi, Platyostoma brownsportense, Platyostoma cliftonensis, Platyostoma cornutum, Platyostoma daytonense, Platyostoma deforme, Platyostoma delicata, Platyostoma desmatum, Platyostoma euomphaloides, Platyostoma gebhardi, Platyostoma grayvillensis, Platyostoma hemispherica, Platyostoma humile, Platyostoma humilis, Platyostoma incisum, Platyostoma indica, Platyostoma invictus, Platyostoma irrasum, Platyostoma lineata, Platyostoma lutheri, Platyostoma modesta, Platyostoma muitissima, Platyostoma naticoides, Platyostoma niagarensis, Platyostoma pastillus, Platyostoma perceense, Platyostoma perforatum, Platyostoma plebeium, Platyostoma pleurotoma, Platyostoma rotundatum, Platyostoma rowei, Platyostoma speciosum, Platyostoma strophius, Platyostoma subglobosa, Platyostoma triangularis, Platyostoma tumidum, Platyostoma turbinata, Platyostoma unisulcata, Platyostoma ventricosum
Ecology: passively mobile epifaunal coprophage
Distribution: found only at Hackerberry Grove, south bank of Winnabago River (Devonian of Iowa)
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