Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Alternative spelling: Platyceras (Strophostylus)
Synonym: Helictostylus Knight 1934 [objective synonym]
Full reference: J. Hall. 1859. Notes and observations upon the fossils of the Goniatite Limestone, in the Marcellus shale of the Hamilton group, and those of the Goniatite beds of Rockford, Indiana, with some analogous forms from the Hamilton Group proper. Annual report of the Regents of the University of the State of New York on the State Cabinet of Natural History and the Historical and Antiquarian collection annexed thereto 13:95-112
Parent taxon: Platyceratidae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Barrois 1889, Knight 1941, Knight et al. 1960, Sepkoski 2002 and Ulrich and Scofield 1897
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, Platyschisma, Ploconema, Praenatica, Pseudoplatyceras, Pseudorthonychiinae, Ptychospirina, Radvanospira, Rhabdocantha, Spinyplatyceras, Spiranodus, Spironemella, Strotostoma, Stuckenbergispira, Tachloconcha
Subtaxa: Strophostylus andrewsi Strophostylus bivolve Strophostylus cancellata Strophostylus chesterensis Strophostylus cyclostomus Strophostylus elegans Strophostylus elevatus Strophostylus fitchi Strophostylus fortuitus Strophostylus girtyi Strophostylus globosus Strophostylus matheri Strophostylus nevadensis Strophostylus obtusus Strophostylus sargalensis Strophostylus tantillus Strophostylus transversus Strophostylus unica Strophostylus wortheni
Type: Strophostylus andrewsi
Ecology: passively mobile epifaunal coprophage
Distribution:
• Permian of Pakistan (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1)
• Carboniferous of United States (16: Alabama, Arizona, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Wyoming)
• Devonian of France (1), Italy (1), Morocco (1), United States (5: Alaska, Iowa, Maine, New York)
• Niagaran of United States (1: Ohio)
• Silurian of Canada (3: Ontario), the Czech Republic (2), United States (20: Indiana, New York, Tennessee, Wisconsin)
Total: 52 collections including 56 occurrences
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