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Platycerus2

Thin shelled with fine growth lines with some species having hollow spines. Silurian through Middle Permian period. Widespread in North America. One of the most abundant gastropod genera in the Paleozoic Era. The shell has an outer layer of calcite with most shells having an outer aragonite layer.