Hyolitha - Orthothecida - Protowenellidae
Full reference: B. Runnegar and P.A. Jell. 1976. Australian Middle Cambrian molluscs and their bearing on early molluscan evolution. Alcheringa 1(1/2):109-138
Parent taxon: Protowenellidae according to J. S. Peel 2021
See also Bengtson 1992, Berg-Madsen and Peel 1978, Gubanov et al. 2004, Missarzhevsky 1989, Parkhaev 2002, Runnegar and Jell 1976, Sepkoski 2002 and Wotte 2006
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Protowenella cobbensis Protowenella flemingi Protowenella huainanensis Protowenella lancaraensis Protowenella plena Protowenella primaria
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Antarctica (3 collections), Australia (5), China (1), Denmark (1), Greenland (3), Iran (1), Kazakhstan (2), Kyrgyzstan (2), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Solvan of Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Amgan of Denmark (1)
Total: 23 collections including 24 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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