Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Neritimorpha
Superfamilia Incertae sedis: † Platyceratoidea
Familia: † Platyceratidae
Genera (2): †Platyceras – †Spiniplatyceras
Name
† Platyceratidae Hall, 1879
Synonyms
Cyclonematidae P. Fischer, 1885 †
Palaeocapulidae Grabau, 1936 †
Platyostomatidae S. A. Miller, 1889 †
Strophostylidae Grabau & Shimer, 1909 †
References
Links
Platyceratidae in the World Register of Marine Species
Platyceratidae is an extinct family of Paleozoic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. This family may belong in the Patellogastropoda or the Neritimorpha.[2]
Platyceratids are known for the complex symbiotic relationships they had with crinoids.[3] Platyceratids are thought to have been parasitic on crinoids, either drilling into the stomach to steal the crinoid's food in a form of kleptoparasitism or drilling into the anal sac to feed on the gonads or the hindgut.[3][4] Previous authors have suggested that platyceratids were commensalists which fed on crinoid fecal matter without harming the crinoid, but more recent studies have shown that platyceratids did have a negative effect on their crinoid hosts as would be expected if they were actively parasitic.[5] It has been suggested that the large spines present on many species of crinoids served to deter predators who might damage or harm the crinoid in an effort to feed on the platyceratid snails infesting it.[4]
This is the only family in the superfamily Platyceratoidea.
Genera
Platyceras Conrad, 1840 - type genus
Palaeocapulus Grabau & Shimer, 1909
References
Wagner, P. J. (2004). "Phylogenetic Relationships of the Earliest Anisostrophically Coiled Gastropods". Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 88: 1–152. doi:10.5479/si.00810266.88.1.[permanent dead link]
Sutton, M. D.; Briggs, D. E. G.; Siveter, D. J.; Siveter, D. J. (2006). "Fossilized soft tissues in a Silurian platyceratid gastropod". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 273 (1590): 1039–1044. doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3403. PMC 1560260. PMID 16600878.
Baumiller, T. K. (2003). "Evaluating the interaction between platyceratid gastropods and crinoids; a cost-benefit approach". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 201 (3–4): 199–209. Bibcode:2003PPP...201..199B. doi:10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00625-4.
Syverson, Valerie J. P.; Brett, Carlton E.; Gahn, Forest J.; Baumiller, Tomasz K. (21 March 2018). "Spinosity, regeneration, and targeting among Paleozoic crinoids and their predators". Paleobiology. 44 (2): 290–305. Bibcode:2018Pbio...44..290S. doi:10.1017/pab.2017.38.
Rollins, Harold B.; Brezkinski, David K. (9 October 2007). "Reinterpretation of crinoid-platyceratid interaction". Lethaia. 21 (3): 207–217. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1988.tb02072.x.
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