Helenia Walcott 1890

Hyolitha - Hyolithida - Hyolithidae

Full reference: C. D. Walcott. 1890. Descriptive notes of new genera and species from the Lower Cambrian or Olenellus zone of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 12:33-46

Parent taxon: Hyolithidae according to D. W. Fisher 1962

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Elegantilites, Hallotheca, Haplophrentis, Hyolithes, Korilithes, Nevadotheca, Novakotheca, Sololites, Yalarrnga

Subtaxa: Helenia bella

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Type: Helenia bella

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Manuel’s Brook, Conception Bay (Cambrian of Newfoundland and Labrador)

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