Cyrtonellopsis huzzahensis Yochelson 1958 (mollusk)

Tergomya - Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae

Full reference: E. L. Yochelson. 1958. Some Lower Ordovician monoplacophoran mollusks from Missouri. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 48(1):8-14

Belongs to Cyrtonellopsis according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Yochelson 1958

Sister taxon: Cyrtonellopsis vetulum

Type specimen: Its type locality is 238-b Huzzah Creek section, 1 miles W mouth of Dry Creek, on MO Highway, which is in a Gasconadian carbonate dolomite in the Gasconade Formation of Missouri.

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at 238-b. Huzzah Creek section, 1 miles W mouth of Dry Creek, on MO Highway

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