Helcionelloida - Pelagiellida - Aldanellidae
NOTE TO THE FOSSIL CALIBRATION CROWD: This is not a snail!
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Synonym: Paraaldanella Golubev 1976
Full reference: V. A. Vostokova. 1962. Cambrian gastropods from Siberian Platform and Taimyr. Statei po Paleontologii i Biostratigrafii 28:51-74
Parent taxon: Aldanellidae according to P. J. Wagner 2023
See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Golubev 1976, Kouchinsky et al. 2017, Linsley and Kier 1984, Missarzhevsky 1989, Parkhaev 2002, Parkhaev 2007, Rozanov et al. 1969, Runnegar and Jell 1976 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Nomgoliella
Subtaxa: Aldanella attleborensis Aldanella costata Aldanella crassa Aldanella golubevi Aldanella iberica Aldanella kunda Aldanella patelliforma Aldanella patelliformis Aldanella remota Aldanella sibirica
Type: Pleurotomaria (Raphistoma) attleborensis
Ecology: epifaunal grazer
Distribution:
• Placentian of United States (5: Massachusetts collections)
• Cambrian of Canada (21: Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia), China (10), Guinea (1), Iran (1), the Russian Federation (54), Saint Pierre and Miquelon (1), Spain (1), United States (1: Massachusetts)
Total: 95 collections including 128 occurrences
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