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Platyceras oxynotum

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae

Taxonomy

Platyceras oxynotum was named by Girty (1929). It is not extant. Its type locality is USGS 3203. East side of valley 1 mile southeast of James, which is in a Meramecian carbonate chert/carbonate in the Boone Formation of Arkansas.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

P. acutissimum, P. acutum, P. augustus, P. ausavensis, P. hercynicum, P. incerta, P. lineata, P. nanbiancunensis, P. praepriscum, P. protei, P. selcanum, P. yulei, P. alienum, P. auquis, P. giebeli, P. naticopsis

Entered

by P. Wagner on 2006-04-27

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1929	Platyceras oxynotum Girty p. 95 figs. pl. 12 f. 28-29
1967	Platyceras oxynotum Yochelson and Saunders p. 178

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca

Rank	Name	Author
class	Gastropoda
subclass	Eogastropoda
order	Euomphalina
superfamily	Platyceratoidea	()
family	Platyceratidae
genus	Platyceras
species	oxynotum

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Platyceras oxynotum Girty 1929

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available