Platyceras

Platyceras
Temporal range: Silurian-Middle Triassic
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Platyceras pulcherrimum from the Logan Formation (Mississippian) of Wooster, Ohio)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: incertae sedis
Family: †Platyceratidae
Genus: †Platyceras
Conrad, 1840
Synonyms
  • Acroculia Phillips 1841
  • Actita Fahrenkohl 1844

Platyceras is a genus of extinct Paleozoic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Platyceratidae. This genus is known from the Silurian to the Middle Triassic periods and especially abundant in the Devonian and Carboniferous. It is the type genus of the family Platyceratidae.

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