Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Synonyms: Acroculia Phillips 1841 [objective synonym], Actita Fahrenkohl 1844
Full reference: T. A. Conrad. 1840. Third annual report on the palaeontological department of the survey. New York Geological Survey, Annual Report 4(1):199-207
Parent taxon: Platyceratidae according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005
See also Knight 1941, Knight et al. 1960, Sepkoski 2002, Ulrich and Scofield 1897 and Wagner 1999
Sister taxa: Barynema, Basiplanus, Brokenriveria, Cancellator, Cancelloplatyceras, Compsonema, Crossoceras, Cyclonema, Devononema, Dyeria, Euthyrhachis, Globulonema, Himantonia, Lotzia, Naticellina, Naticonema, Naticonoda, Natirhenia, Nonorios, Obscuropsis, Paffrathia, Palaeocapulus, Platyostoma, Platyschisma, Ploconema, Praenatica, Pseudoplatyceras, Pseudorthonychiinae, Ptychospirina, Radvanospira, Rhabdocantha, Spinyplatyceras, Spiranodus, Spironemella, Strophostylus, Strotostoma, Stuckenbergispira, Tachloconcha
Subtaxa: Platyceras (Euthyrachis) Platyceras (Platyceras) Platyceras (Tubomphalus) Platyceras (Visitator) Platyceras abundans Platyceras ammon Platyceras angulatum Platyceras angustum Platyceras argo Platyceras attenuatum Platyceras auriculatum Platyceras billingsi Platyceras bistrami Platyceras bucculentum Platyceras callossum Platyceras canalicatum Platyceras carinatum Platyceras chapmani Platyceras colonus Platyceras columbinus Platyceras compressum Platyceras compressum Platyceras compressus Platyceras conradi Platyceras contortum Platyceras contortus Platyceras cordatus Platyceras crassum Platyceras cymbium Platyceras decorum Platyceras dilatans Platyceras dilatatum Platyceras disciforme Platyceras dormitans Platyceras duriculatum Platyceras eberti Platyceras echinatum Platyceras edmundi Platyceras elongatum Platyceras encloides Platyceras erectum Platyceras evolutus Platyceras expansus Platyceras fecundum Platyceras galeritus Platyceras gaspense Platyceras gibbosum Platyceras glenparkensis Platyceras gracilis Platyceras guesnini Platyceras hainensis Platyceras haliotis Platyceras haliotoides Platyceras hebes Platyceras holzapfeli Platyceras humulus Platyceras kahlebergensis Platyceras khammonense Platyceras laevicostatum Platyceras latum Platyceras leboutillieri Platyceras lejeunii Platyceras magnificum Platyceras mansfieldense Platyceras marylandicum Platyceras minutum Platyceras multiplicatus Platyceras munsteriana Platyceras nasutum Platyceras nettersheimensis Platyceras niagarensis Platyceras nodosum Platyceras oehlerti Platyceras oxynotum Platyceras paralium Platyceras patelliforme Platyceras pericompsus Platyceras perneri Platyceras platystomum Platyceras plicatile Platyceras priscum Platyceras producti Platyceras pulcherrimum Platyceras rarispinum Platyceras reflexum Platyceras richtum Platyceras rictum Platyceras robustum Platyceras romingeri Platyceras sagum Platyceras sigmoidale Platyceras sinuatum Platyceras spirale Platyceras squamosus Platyceras steinmanni Platyceras subrotundum Platyceras subumbonatum Platyceras symmetricum Platyceras tenella Platyceras terminalis Platyceras thetiforme Platyceras thetis Platyceras trilobatum Platyceras trojani Platyceras uncinatus Platyceras undata Platyceras undulatum Platyceras unicus Platyceras ussheri Platyceras verrucosum Platyceras vetusta Platyceras villmarensis Platyceras yochelsoni Platyceras zinkeni
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal parasite
Distribution:
• Triassic of United States (2: Alaska collections)
• Permian of Australia (5), China (1), Indonesia (3), Iran (1), Laos (1), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (12: Alaska, Nevada, Texas, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous of Australia (2), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (2), Ireland (4), Mexico (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (5), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (107: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee)
• Givetian of France (1)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (2), Australia (11), Austria (6), Bolivia (1), Brazil (3), Canada (17: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (3), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (3), France (1), Germany (9), Italy (1), Morocco (6), South Africa (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (142: Alaska, Colorado, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia), Venezuela (2)
• Niagaran of Canada (1: Québec)
• Silurian to Devonian of the Czech Republic (1)
• Silurian of Austria (1), Canada (3: Nunavut, Québec), China (1), the Czech Republic (6), Estonia (2), Italy (2), Norway (1), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (58: California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, New York, Wisconsin)
Total: 451 collections including 544 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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