Parailsanella acris Voronova et al. 1987 (mollusk)

Helcionelloida - Helcionellida - Trenellidae

Full reference: L. G. Voronova, N. A. Drozdova, B. A. Zhegallo, A. Yu Zhuravlev, A. Yu Rozanov, T. A. Sayutina, and G. T. Ushatinskaya. 1987. Fossils from the Lower Cambrian of the MacKenzie Mountains (Canada). Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 224:1-88

Belongs to Parailsanella according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Voronova et al. 1987

Sister taxa: Parailsanella inpocera, Parailsanella lata, Parailsanella murenica, Parailsanella sayutinae, Isitella recta, Isitella plicata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Collection 52, Fritz Sec33, MacKenzie Mountains, which is in an Atdabanian carbonate limestone in the Sekwi Formation of Canada.

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Collection 52, Fritz Sec. 33, MacKenzie Mountains

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