Platyceras
| Platyceras | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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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.