Plaesiomys
Plaesiomys is a genus of extinct lamp shells belonging to the family Plaesiomyidae.
| Plaesiomys Temporal range: Ordovician  | |
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| Fossils of Plaesiomys subquadrata | |
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Fossil record
    
Fossils of Plaesiomys are found in marine strata of the Ordovician (age range: from 466.0 to 443.7 years ago.) of Canada, China, Europe and United States.[1]
Species
    
- †Plaesiomys anticostiensis (Shaler, 1865)
 - †Plaesiomys bellistriatus Wang, 1949
 - †Plaesiomys carletona Twenhofel, 1928
 - †Plaesiomys fidelis Popov et al., 2000
 - †Plaesiomys iphigenia (Billings, 1865)
 - †Plaesiomys multiplicata Bancroft, 1945
 - †Plaesiomys porcata (McCoy, 1846)
 - †Plaesiomys proavitus Winchell and Schuchert, 1892
 - †Plaesiomys rockymontana Wilson, 1926
 - †Plaesiomys saxbiana Oraspold, 1959
 - †Plaesiomys subquadrata (Hall, 1847)
 
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