Yangtzeconus striatus Cobbold 1921 (mollusk)

Tergomya - Cyrtonellida

Alternative combinations: Latouchella striata, Tichkaella striata, Yangtzeconus striata

Full reference: E.S. Cobbold. 1921. The Cambrian horizons of Comley (Shropshire) and their Brachiopoda, Pteropoda, Gasteropoda and etc. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 76:325-386

Belongs to Yangtzeconus according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Cobbold 1921, Geyer 1986 and Parkhaev and Demidenko 2010

Sister taxon: Yangtzeconus priscus

Type specimen: R 2655. Its type locality is Ac5, Comley Quarry, which is in a Branchian carbonate limestone in the Lower Comley Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Ac5, Comley Quarry

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