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Platyostoma lineata

Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae

Taxonomy
Platyostoma lineatum was named by Conrad (1842). It is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Diaphorostoma lineatum by Clarke (1903), Grabau and Shimer (1909), Prosser and Kindle (1913) and Clarke and Swartz (1913); it was recombined as Diaphorostoma lineata by Fisher (1951); it was recombined as Platystoma lineata by Oliver (1952); it was recombined as Naticonema lineata by Ellison (1965); it was recombined as Platyceras (Platyostoma) lineatum by Kesling and Chilman (1975); it was recombined as Naticonema lineatum by Baird and Brett (1983); it was misspelled as Platystoma lineata by Sessa (2003); it was corrected as Platyostoma lineata by Hall (1862), Hall (1876), Hall (1879), Walcott (1884), Linsley (1994) and Wagner (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1842Platyostoma lineatum Conrad p. 276 figs. pl. 17 f. 7
1862Platyostoma lineata Hall p. 40
1876Platyostoma lineata Hall figs. pl. 9
1879Platyostoma lineata Hall p. 21 figs. pl. 10 f. 1-21
1884Platyostoma lineata Walcott p. 185
1903Diaphorostoma lineatum Clarke p. 533
1909Diaphorostoma lineatum Grabau and Shimer p. 680 figs. f. 953
1913Diaphorostoma lineatum Clarke and Swartz pp. 684 - 685 figs. pl. 70 f. 17-19
1913Diaphorostoma lineatum Prosser and Kindle pp. 298 - 299 figs. pl. 37 f. 7-12
1951Diaphorostoma lineata Fisher
1952Platystoma lineata Oliver
1965Naticonema lineata Ellison pp. 152 - 153 figs. pl. 17 f. 12
1975Platyceras (Platyostoma) lineatum Kesling and Chilman
1983Naticonema lineatum Baird and Brett p. 442
1994Platyostoma lineata Linsley
2003Platystoma lineata Sessa
2023Platyostoma lineata Wagner p. 3471

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassEogastropoda
orderEuomphalina
superfamilyPlatyceratoidea()
familyPlatyceratidae
genusPlatyostoma
specieslineata()

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.

†Platyostoma lineata Conrad 1842
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitef
Composition 2: aragonitef
Entire body: yesf
Adult length: 10 to < 100f
Adult width: 10 to < 100f
Ribbing: minorsuperf
Ontogeny: accretionsuperf
Environment: marinef
Locomotion: passively mobilef
Epibiont: yesf
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: coprophagef
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2004-08-15 08:04:13
Modified: 2009-07-20 15:16:03
Source: f = family, superf = superfamily, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Knight et al. 1960, Batten 1984

Age range: base of the Eifelian to the top of the Frasnian or 393.30000 to 372.20000 Ma

Collections (82 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Emsian - Eifelian407.6 - 387.7Colombia Platyostoma lineata (36017 36018)
Eifelian393.3 - 387.7USA (Pennsylvania) Diaphorostoma lineatum (232686)
Eifelian393.3 - 387.7USA (Ohio) Platyostoma lineatum (129948)
Eifelian393.3 - 387.7USA (New York) Platyostoma lineata (9538 9541 9542 9551 9552 9613 9614 9615) Platystoma lineata (9540)
Middle Devonian393.3 - 382.7USA (New York) Naticonema lineatum (91091 91238 91240 91277 91278 91279 91280 91281)
Middle Devonian393.3 - 382.7USA (Indiana) Naticonema lineatum (11101)
Givetian387.7 - 382.7USA (Illinois) Platystoma lineata (157345)
Givetian387.7 - 382.7USA (Ohio) Platyceras lineatum (38450 38451 38457 38458 38459 38460 38461 38462) Platyostoma lineatum (38452 38453 38454 38455 38456)
Givetian387.7 - 382.7USA (New York) Diaphorostoma lineata (10459) Diaphorostoma lineatum (76163) Naticonema lineata (5619 5620 5661 5664 5667 5668 8717 8718 8722 8724 8726 8727 8728 8978 8979 8984 8987 8993 8996 9000 9002 9005 9006 9016 9017 9019 9020 9028) Naticonema lineatum (10101 10107 10110 10119 96209 96210 96211 96212 96213) Platystoma lineata (89688 89698 89741 89804)
Frasnian382.7 - 372.2Colombia (Boyaca) Platyostoma lineata (36012)
Frasnian382.7 - 372.2USA (Pennsylvania) Diaphorostoma lineatum (148222)
Early/Lower Famennian376.1 - 370.6Germany (Rhenish Massif) Platyostoma lineata (5960)