Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae

Full reference: H. S. Williams and C. L. Breger. 1916. The fauna of the Chapman Sandstone of Maine. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 89:1-347

Belongs to Platyceras according to H. S. Williams and C. L. Breger 1916

Sister taxa: Platyceras (Platyceras), Platyceras (Platyostoma), Platyceras (Tubomphalus), Platyceras (Visitator), Platyceras abundans, Platyceras ammon, Platyceras angulatum, Platyceras argo, Platyceras attenuatum, Platyceras auriculatum, Platyceras billingsi, Platyceras bistrami, Platyceras bucculentum, Platyceras callossum, Platyceras canalicatum, Platyceras carinatum, Platyceras colonus, Platyceras columbinus, Platyceras compressum, Platyceras compressum, Platyceras compressus, 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 erectum, Platyceras expansus, Platyceras fecundum, Platyceras fornicatum, Platyceras galeritus, Platyceras gaspense, Platyceras gibbosum, Platyceras gracilis, Platyceras guesnini, Platyceras hainensis, Platyceras haliotis, Platyceras haliotoides, Platyceras hebes, Platyceras holzapfeli, Platyceras humulus, Platyceras kahlebergensis, Platyceras laevicostatum, Platyceras latum, Platyceras leboutillieri, Platyceras lejeunii, Platyceras magnificum, Platyceras mansfieldense, Platyceras marylandicum, Platyceras minutum, Platyceras multiplicatus, 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 sigmoidale, Platyceras sinuatum, Platyceras spirale, Platyceras squamosus, Platyceras steinmanni, Platyceras subrotundum, Platyceras subumbonatum, Platyceras symmetricum, Platyceras terminalis, Platyceras thetis, Platyceras trilobatum, Platyceras trojani, Platyceras uncinatus, Platyceras undata, Platyceras unicus, Platyceras ussheri, Platyceras verrucosum, Platyceras vetusta, Platyceras villmarensis, Platyceras yochelsoni

Type specimen: Its type locality is locality 1099C. Edmunds Hill, Chapman Township, which is in a Lochkovian delta front sandstone in the Chapman Sandstone Formation of Maine.

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal parasite