Rhabdochites scissus Yang and He 1984

Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae

Full reference: X. Yang and T. He. 1984. New small shelly fossils from Lower Cambrian Meishucun stage of Nanjiang area, northern Sichuan. Professional Papers of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology 13:35-48

Belongs to Rhabdochites according to X. Yang and T. He 1984

Sister taxa: Hyolithellus decorus, Hyolithellus filiformis, Hyolithellus grandis, Hyolithellus insolitus, Hyolithellus isiticus, Hyolithellus micans, Hyolithellus papillatus, Hyolithellus rectus, Hyolithellus sinuosus, Hyolithellus tenuis, Hyolithellus vitricus, Hyolithellus vladimirovae

Type specimen: Its type locality is Nanjiang, which is in a Meishucunian marine horizon in the Dengying Formation of China

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Nanjiang

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