Platyostoma humile Billings 1866 (snail)

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae

Alternative combinations: Cyclonema humilis, Diaphorostoma humile

Full reference: E. Billings. 1866. Catalogues of the Silurian fossils of the Island of Anticosti, with descriptions of some new genera and species 1-93

Belongs to Platyostoma according to E. H. Thompson 1970

See also Billings 1866 and Twenhofel 1928

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 humilis, Platyostoma incisum, Platyostoma indica, Platyostoma insolita, Platyostoma invictus, Platyostoma irrasum, Platyostoma lineata, Platyostoma lutheri, Platyostoma minutissima, 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:

• Silurian of Canada (2: Quebec collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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