Joleaudella argo Billings 1860 (snail)

Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae

Alternative combinations: Bellerophon argo, Oxydiscus argo, Tropidodiscus argo

Full reference: E. Billings. 1860. New species of fossils from the Lower Silurian rocks of Canada. The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist 6(3):161-177

Belongs to Joleaudella according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Billings 1860, Ulrich and Scofield 1897 and Wilson 1951

Sister taxa: Joleaudella catilloides, Joleaudella karki, Joleaudella mansuyi, Joleaudella perstriatus, Joleaudella rotula, Joleaudella sigmoidalis, Joleaudella sphenonotus, Joleaudella transiens, Joleaudella yimgantauensis

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Wilson Loc 001. Paquette Rapids, east end of Allumette Island (Ordovician of Quebec)

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