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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Platyceratidae : Platyostoma : Platyostoma niagarensis |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Euomphalina : Platyceratidae : Platyceras : Platyostoma niagarensis |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Generic Name | Platyostoma |
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| Scientific Name | Platyostoma niagarensis (Hall, 1852) |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Platyostoma niagarensis | species | belongs to Platyostoma | stated without evidence | Hall, 1852 | | Platyostoma niagarensis | species | belongs to Diaphorostoma | stated without evidence | Clarke and Ruedemann, 1903 | | Platyostoma niagarensis | species | belongs to Naticonema | stated without evidence | Bolton, 1957 | | Platyostoma niagarensis | species | belongs to Platyostoma | implied | Perry and Hattin, 1960 | | Platyostoma niagarensis | species | belongs to Naticonema | implied | Brett, 1999 | | Platyostoma niagarensis | species | belongs to Platyostoma | stated with evidence | Wagner, 2017 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 443 - 441 Ma
Silurian |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 433 - 419 Ma
Paleozoic |
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| Environment | marine (based on Platyceratidae) |
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| Motility | facultatively mobile, epibiont (based on Platyceras) |
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| Vision | limited (based on Gastropoda) |
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| Diet | parasite (based on Platyceras) |
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| Ontogeny | accretion (based on Platyceratoidea) |
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| Taphonomy | low Mg calcite, aragonite (based on Platyceratidae) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | J. Hall. 1852. Containing descriptions of the organic remains of the lower middle division of the New York system. Paleontology of New York 2:1-362 |
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| Hall J. Containing descriptions of the organic remains of the lower middle division of the New York system, Paleontology of New York 2, 1-362 |
| Hall J. Account of some new or little known species of fossils from rocks of the age of the Niagara group, Annual report of the Regents of the University of the State of New York on the State Cabinet of Natural History and the Historical and Antiquarian collection annexed thereto 20, 305-352 |
| Clarke J. M., Ruedemann R. (1903) Guelph fauna in the state of New York, New York State Museum Memoirs 5, 1-100 |
| Foerste A. F. (1923) Notes on the Medinan, Niagaran, and Chester fossils, Bulletin of the Scientific Laboratories of Denison University 23, 37-120 |
| Twenhofel W. H. (1928) Geology of Anticosti Island, Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 154 2132, 1-351 |
| Northrop S. A. (1939) Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Silurian rocks of the Port Daniel-Black Cape Region, Gaspé, Geological Society of America Special Paper 21, 1-302 |
| Bolton T. E. (1957) Silurian stratigraphy and palæontology of the Niagara escarpment in Ontario, Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 289, 1-145 |
| Perry T.G., Hattin D.E. (1960) Osgood (Niagaran) bryozoans from the type area, Journal of Paleontology 34, 85-90 |
| Brett C. E. (1999) Wenlockian fossil communities in New York State and adjacent areas: Paleontology and Paleoecology, Paleocommunities: A Case Study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian, 592-637 |
| Wagner P. J. (2017) Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database |
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