Platystrophia Fossil range: Ordovician - Silurian
Platystrophia ponderosa (Ordovician). Scale bar is 5.0 mm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Brachiopoda
Order:	Orthida
Family:	Plectorthidae
Genus:	Platystrophia

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Platystrophia is an extinct genus of brachiopod that lived from the Ordovician to the Silurian in Asia, Europe, North America, and South America.

[edit] Sources

• Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 79)

[edit] External links

• Platystrophia in the Paleobiology Database

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