Tuoraconus acutatus Missarzhevsky 1989 (mollusk)

Helcionelloida - Helcionellida - Helcionellidae

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

Belongs to Tuoraconus according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Kouchinsky et al. 2017 and Missarzhevsky 1989

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Near Chekurovka village, Lena River, which is in a Tommotian marine limestone in the Tyuser Formation of the Russian Federation

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Near Chekurovka village, Lena River

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