Purella cristata - Maikhanellidae
Alternative combination: Purella cristatus
Synonym: Purella dzhandica Pelman et al. 1990
Full reference: V. V. Missarzhevsky. 1974. Novye dannye o drevnejshikh okamenelostyakh rannego kembriya Sibirskoj platformy. Biostratigraphiya i paleontologiya nizhnego kembriya Europy i severnoj Azii 179-189
Belongs to Purella according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Khomentovsky and Karlova 1993, Kouchinsky et al. 2017, Missarzhevsky 1974, Parkhaev and Demidenko 2010 and Pelman et al. 1990
Sister taxa: Purella arcana, Purella atypica, Purella gracilis, Purella insueta, Purella layracensis, Purella squamulosa, Maikhanella multa, Maikhanella lepidites
Type specimens:
- Purella cristata: Its type locality is M71-2/66, : left bank of the Olenyok River, 6 km downstream the Chuskuna Brook, which is in a Tommotian carbonate limestone in the Kessyusa Formation of the Russian Federation
- Purella dzhandica:
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Mongolia (1 collection), the Russian Federation (21)
Total: 22 collections each including a single occurrence
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