†family Yochelcionellidae Runnegar and Jell 1976 (mollusk)

Helcionelloida - Helcionellida - Yochelcionellidae

Synonym: Enigmaconidae MacKinnon 1985

Full reference: B. Runnegar and P.A. Jell. 1976. Australian Middle Cambrian molluscs and their bearing on early molluscan evolution. Alcheringa 1(1/2):109-138

Parent taxon: Yochelcionelloidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005

See also Missarzhevsky 1989, Parkhaev 2002, Parkhaev 2004, Runnegar and Jell 1976 and Wahlman 1992

Sister taxa: Rugaeconidae, Trenellidae

Subtaxa: Enigmaconus Eotebenna Janospira Yochelcionella

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Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Cambrian of Antarctica (4 collections), Australia (4), Canada (6: Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Quebec), China (3), Denmark (1), Germany (1), Greenland (12), Kazakhstan (1), Kyrgyzstan (2), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (14), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: New York, Pennsylvania)

• Amgan of the Russian Federation (2)

• Solvan of Australia (1), the Russian Federation (4)

Total: 61 collections including 77 occurrences

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