Bivalvia - Fordillida - Fordillidae
Synonyms: Buluniella Jermak 1986, Jellia Li and Zhou 1986, Oryzoconcha He and Pei 1985
Full reference: P. A. Jell. 1980. Earliest known pelecypod on Earth - a new Early Cambrian genus from Australia. Alcheringa 4(1/2):233-239
Parent taxon: Fordillidae according to O. Elicki and S. Gürsu 2009
See also Bengtson et al. 1990, Fang et al. 2009, Geyer and Streng 1998, Hinz-Schallreuter 2000, Nevesskaja 2009, Parkhaev 2001, Runnegar and Pojeta 1992 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Fordilla
Subtaxa: Pojetaia dentifera Pojetaia ostseensis Pojetaia ovata Pojetaia runnegari Pojetaia sarhoensis
Type: Jellia elliptica
Ecology: stationary shallow infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Antarctica (6 collections), Australia (34), Canada (4: Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec), China (7), Greenland (6), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (13), Turkey (2), United States (1: New York)
Total: 74 collections including 78 occurrences
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