Mastakhella Missarzhevsky 1989 (mollusk)

Helcionelloida - Helcionellida - Carinopeltidae

Full reference: V. V. Missarzhevsky. 1989. Oldest skeletal fossils of late Precambrian and early Cambrian age: a review of recent work. Trudy Geologicheskogo Instituta AN SSSR 443:1-231

Parent taxon: Carinopeltidae according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Missarzhevsky 1989, Parkhaev 2002 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Carinopelta, Gonamella, Protoconus, Squamiconus

Subtaxa: Mastakhella incurva

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Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Mastakhella in the database

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