Platyostoma Conrad 1842

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae

Alternative spelling: Platyceras (Platyostoma)

Synonyms: Diaphorostoma Fischer 1885, Exogyroceras Meek and Worthen 1868, Ostlerina Talent and Philip 1956, Platycerina Miller 1889

Full reference: T. A. Conrad. 1842. Observations on the Silurian and Devonian systems of the United States, with descriptions of new organic remains. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8(2):228-280

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

See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Knight 1941, Knight et al. 1960, Talent and Philip 1956 and Waagen 1880

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

Subtaxa: 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 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

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Distribution:

• Permian of China (4 collections), Pakistan (5), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)

• Devonian of Australia (2), Austria (2), Brazil (7), Canada (3: Manitoba, Quebec), Colombia (3), France (1), Germany (1), Kazakhstan (2), Morocco (1), South Africa (5), the United Kingdom (3), United States (99: Alaska, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia), Venezuela (2)

• Jaani of Estonia (1)

• Niagaran of United States (1: Ohio)

• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1)

• Silurian of Argentina (1), Canada (16: Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), Estonia (2), Greenland (2), Italy (1), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (18), United States (45: California, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wisconsin)

Total: 234 collections including 265 occurrences

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