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Platypleuroceras

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Polymorphitidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1867Platypleuroceras Hyatt
1965Platypleuroceras Bremer
1970Platypleuroceras Frebold
2000Platypleuroceras Blau et al. p. 271
2002Platypleuroceras Sepkoski
2003Platypleuroceras Donovan and Surlyk
2003Platypleuroceras Meister and Friebe
2013Platypleuroceras Howarth p. 53

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyEoderoceratoidea(Spath 1929)
familyPolymorphitidae
subfamilyPolymorphitinae
genusPlatypleurocerasHyatt 1867

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.

G. †Platypleuroceras Hyatt 1867
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Invalid names: Ammonites amplinatrix Quenstedt 1885 [synonym], Platypleuroceras brevispinoides Tutcher and Trueman 1925 [synonym]
†Platypleuroceras caprarium Quenstedt 1856
†Platypleuroceras oblongum Quenstedt 1845
†Platypleuroceras orbis Bremer 1965
†Platypleuroceras rotundum Quenstedt 1845
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Invalid names: Ammonites natrix oblongus Quenstedt 1849 [nomen dubium], Platypleuroceras enzenharti Schlatter 1980 [synonym]
†Platypleuroceras tenuilobus Quenstedt 1885
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height511.75.0024.013.06.98
shell diameter546.222.098.052.028.6
shell inflation525.214.052.026.014.6

Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-01-28 02:27:03
Modified: 2009-10-08 14:14:55
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003

Age range: Jamesoni or 192.90000 to 184.20000 Ma

Collections (46 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Sinemurian - Early/Lower Pliensbachian199.5 - 184.2Türkiye Crucilobiceras submuticum (218660)
Late/Upper Sinemurian - Late/Upper Pliensbachian199.5 - 184.2Austria P. amplinatrix (218911) P. brevispina (218910) P. sp., P. rotundum, P. brevispina (218932)
Obtusum - Margaritatus199.5 - 184.2Austria P. rotundum, P. brevispina (218909)
Sinemurian - Pliensbachian199.5 - 184.2Austria P. brevispinoides (218903)
Early/Lower Pliensbachian192.9 - 184.2Ukraine (Transcarpathian) P. sp. (197006)
Early/Lower Pliensbachian192.9 - 184.2Germany (Niedersachsen) P. brevispina (126923)
Early/Lower Pliensbachian192.9 - 184.2Denmark (Bornholm) P. sp., P. brevispina, P. caprarium, P. submuticum (219923)
Early/Lower Pliensbachian192.9 - 184.2United Kingdom (Gloucestershire) P. sp. (204128)
Jamesoni192.9 - 184.2Türkiye P. oblongum (147303 147311) P. rotundum (147310) P. valdaniforme (147327)
Jamesoni192.9 - 184.2United Kingdom P. brevispina (218407)
Jamesoni192.9 - 184.2France P. brevispina, P. brevispinoides (147722 147997) P. brevispinoides (146498 147723 147765 147766 147947 147966 147968 148112 148173) P. rotundum, P. brevispina, P. brevispinoides (146497 147721) P. tenuilobus (147720)
Jamesoni192.9 - 184.2Spain (Aragon) P. aureum (146704 146705) P. brevispina (146697) P. rotundum (146695) P. rotundum, P. brevispina (146700) P. sp. (98402 146701)
Jamesoni192.9 - 184.2United Kingdom (England) P. brevispina (33357)
Jamesoni192.9 - 184.2United Kingdom (Dorset) P. natrix, P. oblongus, P. sp. (159803) P. sp. (159799 159843) P. sp. nov., P. spp., P. brevispina (159797) P. sp., P. confusus, P. brevispina (159798) Polymorphites caprarius (159856)
Jamesoni192.9 - 184.2Germany P. caprarium (189121)
Pliensbachian192.9 - 184.2Türkiye Crucilobiceras submuticum, P. orbis (218658) P. valdaniforme, Crucilobiceras submuticum (218657)