Platyostoma perforatum Whiteaves 1904 (snail)

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae

Alternative combination: Diaphorostoma perforatum

Full reference: J. F. Whiteaves. 1904. Notes on some fossils from the Cambro-Silurian and Silurian rocks of the Albany River drainage system in northwester Ontario. Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Canada, New Series 14:34-41

Belongs to Platyostoma according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Parks 1915, Whiteaves 1904 and Whiteaves 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 insolita, Platyostoma invictus, Platyostoma irrasum, Platyostoma lineata, Platyostoma lutheri, Platyostoma minutissima, Platyostoma modesta, Platyostoma muitissima, Platyostoma naticoides, Platyostoma niagarensis, Platyostoma pastillus, Platyostoma perceense, 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 GSC 80613 and 80128, Severn River (Silurian of Ontario)

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