Scenella venillia Billings 1865 (mollusk)

Tergomya - Scenelloidea - Scenellidae

Alternative combinations: Metoptoma venellia, Metoptoma venillia

Full reference: E. Billings. 1865. Palaeozoic fossils, volume 1. Geological Survey of Canada 1-426

Belongs to Scenella according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Billings 1865 and Whitfield 1889

Sister taxa: Scenella acuminata, Scenella affinis, Scenella amii, Scenella anomala, Scenella augusta, Scenella barrandei, Scenella compressa, Scenella conica, Scenella conicum, Scenella jijiapoensis, Scenella lubrica, Scenella magnifica, Scenella mira, Scenella montrealensis, Scenella oblonga, Scenella obtusa, Scenella orithyia, Scenella pretensa, Scenella pycna, Scenella radialis, Scenella reticulata, Scenella robusta, Scenella unicarinata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Walcott Locality 115a. Point Lévis cemetary, St. Lawrence River., which is in a Sunwaptan carbonate limestone in the Levis Formation of Canada.

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at Walcott Locality 115a. Point Lévis cemetary, St. Lawrence River.

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