†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: Helcionellida according to Y. Oh et al. 2025

See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Missarzhevsky 1989, Parkhaev 2002, Parkhaev 2004, Runnegar and Jell 1976 and Wahlman 1992

Sister taxa: Coreospiridae, Helcionellidae, Helcionelloidea, Stenothecidae, Tribelopoma, Yochelcionelloidea

Subtaxa: Enigmaconus Eotebenna Janospira Yochelcionella

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Type: Yochelcionella

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Cambrian of Antarctica (4 collections), Australia (5), Canada (6: Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Quebec), China (3), Denmark (1), Germany (1), Greenland (15), 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 the Russian Federation (4)

Total: 64 collections including 82 occurrences

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