†family Ceratoconidae Missarzhevsky 1989 (mollusk)
Helcionelloida - Ceratoconidae
Full reference: V. V. Missarzhevsky. 1989. Oldest skeletal fossils of late Precambrian and early Cambrian age: a review of recent work. Trudy Geologicheskogo Instituta AN SSSR 443:1-231
Parent taxon: Helcionelloida according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Missarzhevsky 1989 and Parkhaev and Demidenko 2010
Sister taxa: Beshtashella, Emargimantus, Helcionellida, Helcionelliformes, Michniakia, Pelagiellida
Subtaxa: Ceratoconus Masculuconus
Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Cambrian of China (3 collections), Iran (1), the Russian Federation (5)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence