Kirengella Rozov 1968 (mollusk)

Tergomya - Kiringellida - Hypseloconidae

Alternative spelling: Kiringella

Full reference: S. N. Rozov. 1968. A new genus of Late Cambiran mollusks of the Class Monoplacophora (Southern Part of the Siberian Platform). Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 183(6):214 (1427)-217 (1430)

Parent taxon: Kirengellidae according to B.L. Stinchcomb and N.A. Angeli 2002

See also Ponder et al. 2020, Rozov 1968, Rozov 1975, Runnegar and Jell 1976, Sepkoski 2002 and Starobogatov 1970

Sister taxa: Cambrioconus, Celtopileus, Cornuella, Costulaconus, Gasconadeoconus, Gayneoconus, Hypseloconus, Knightoconus, Orthoconus, Ozarkoconus, Paraceratoconus, Proteroconus, Shelbyoceras, Yochelsonella, Pygmaeoconus

Subtaxa: Kirengella alta Kirengella ayaktchica Kirengella expansus Kirengella kultavasaensis Kirengella oregonensis Kirengella pyramidalis Kirengella rectilateralis Kirengella stabilis Kirengella washingtonense

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Type: Kirengella ayaktchica

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Ordovician of the Russian Federation (1 collection), United States (4: Missouri, Vermont)

• Cambrian of Antarctica (1), Greenland (2), the Russian Federation (2), United States (2: Minnesota, Missouri)

Total: 12 collections including 14 occurrences

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