Torellella explicata Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981

Hyolithelminthida - Torellellidae

Full reference: V. V. Missarzhevsky and A. M. Mambetov. 1981. Stratigrafiya i fauna pogranichnykh sloyev Kembriya i Dokembriya Malogo Karatau [Stratigraphy and fauna of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary beds of the Malyy Karatau]. Trudy Ordena Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni Geologicheskiy Institut Akademiya NAUK SSSR 326:1-96

Belongs to Torellella according to V. V. Missarzhevsky and A. M. Mambetov 1981

Sister taxa: Torellella biconvexa, Torellella curva, Torellella guizhouensis, Torellella laevigata, Torellella lentiformis

Type specimen: Geological Institute, Academy of Sciences of Kyrgystan, no. 21/1, sample M12-72. Its type locality is Beshtash, Talas Alatau, bed 5, which is in an Atdabanian marine dolomite in the Beshtash Formation of Kyrgyzstan.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cambrian of Australia (3 collections), Kyrgyzstan (2)

Total: 5 collections including 6 occurrences

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