Helcionelloida - Helcionellida - Yochelcionellidae
Full reference: C. J. Atkins and J. S. Peel. 2004. New species of Yochelcionella (Mollusca; Helcionelloida) from the Lower Cambrian of North Greenland. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 51(1):1-9
Belongs to Yochelcionella according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Atkins and Peel 2004, Kouchinsky et al. 2013 and Peel 2021
Sister taxa: Yochelcionella aichalica, Yochelcionella americana, Yochelcionella angustiplicata, Yochelcionella chinensis, Yochelcionella crassa, Yochelcionella cyrano, Yochelcionella daleki, Yochelcionella erecta, Yochelcionella gracilis, Yochelcionella ostentata, Yochelcionella pelmani, Yochelcionella saginata, Yochelcionella snorkorum, Yochelcionella stylifera
Type specimen: MGUH 27016. Its type locality is GGU 271471, west side of J.P. Koch Fjord, Lauge Koch Land, which is in a Dyeran carbonate dolomite in the Aftenstjernesø Formation of Greenland.
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Canada (2: Northwest Territories, Quebec collections), Greenland (7), the Russian Federation (1), United States (2: New York, Pennsylvania)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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