Platyceras

Platyceras Temporal range: Silurian-Middle Triassic ~439–221 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Platyceras pulcherrimum from the Logan Formation (Mississippian) of Wooster, Ohio)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
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.^[1] It is the type genus of the family Platyceratidae.