Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Full reference: F. M'Coy. 1844. A synopsis of the characters of the Carboniferous limestone fossils of Ireland 1-207
Parent taxon: Platyceratidae according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Knight et al. 1960 and Sepkoski 2002
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, Platyostoma, Ploconema, Praenatica, Pseudoplatyceras, Pseudorthonychiinae, Ptychospirina, Radvanospira, Rhabdocantha, Spinyplatyceras, Spiranodus, Spironemella, Strophostylus, Strotostoma, Stuckenbergispira, Tachloconcha
Subtaxa: Platyschisma ambiguum Platyschisma applanatum Platyschisma barrisi Platyschisma cirroides Platyschisma depressa Platyschisma depressum Platyschisma helicoides Platyschisma infima Platyschisma laudoni Platyschisma lingua Platyschisma missouriensis Platyschisma ovoidea Platyschisma rotundatum Platyschisma vitrea
Type: Ampullaria helicoides
Ecology: passively mobile epifaunal coprophage
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (5 collections), Pakistan (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (4), Ireland (1), Poland (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (4: Alaska, Iowa)
• Devonian of Germany (1), United States (4: California, Iowa, Nevada)
• Silurian of the Czech Republic (1)
Total: 25 collections including 26 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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