Platyzona Knight 1945 (snail)

Gastropoda - Caenogastropoda - Goniasmatidae

Full reference: J. B. Knight. 1945. Some new genera of the Bellerophontacea. Journal of Paleontology 19:333-340

Parent taxon: Goniasmatidae according to B. Karapunar and A. Nützel 2022

See also Batten 1966, Knight et al. 1960, Nützel et al. 2002, Nützel and Pan 2005, Pan and Erwin 2002 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Akasakiella, Altadema, Cerithioides, Cerithiozone, Cheilotomoninae, Costataenia, Erwinispirinae, Goniasma, Goniasmatinae, Laschmaspira, Pseudomurchisonia, Stegocoelia, Wannerispira

Subtaxa: Platyzona anguispira Platyzona arkansana Platyzona cancellata Platyzona cirriformis Platyzona dongluoensis Platyzona eulkaiensis Platyzona gradata Platyzona hespera Platyzona humilis Platyzona khmeriana Platyzona nitella Platyzona nodohumerosa Platyzona pagoda Platyzona pulchella Platyzona rotunda Platyzona shikhanensis Platyzona trilineata

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Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution:

• Triassic of China (1 collection)

• Permian of Australia (1), Cambodia (3), China (6), Greece (4), Japan (1), Malaysia (1), the Russian Federation (7), Thailand (1), United States (15: Nevada, Texas)

• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (3), United States (18: Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)

Total: 61 collections including 70 occurrences

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