Platyconus Perner 1907 (snail)

Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Luciellidae

Alternative spelling: Pleurotomaria (Platyconus)

Full reference: J. Perner. 1907. Gastéropodes, Tome 2: Pleurotomaridae et Murchisonidae 1-380

Parent taxon: Luciellidae according to P. J. Wagner 1999

See also Knight et al. 1960, Perner 1907 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Crenulazona, Echinocirrus, Eirlysella, Eotrochus, Epiptychia, Luciella, Playfordia, Prosolarium, Zhusilengospira

Subtaxa: Platyconus carinata Platyconus pullus

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Type: Pleurotomaria (Platyconus) incumbens

Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Karlštejn, the abandoned quarries near Mořina (Silurian of Czechia)

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