Scenella conicum Whitfield 1886 (mollusk)

Tergomya - Scenelloidea - Scenellidae

Alternative combination: Tryblidium conicum

Full reference: R. P. Whitfield. 1886. Notice of geological investigations along the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, conducted by Prof. H.J. Seely and Pres. Ezra Brainerd, of Middlebury College, with descriptions of the new fossils discovered. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 1(8):24-35

Belongs to Scenella according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Ulrich and Scofield 1897, Whitfield 1886 and Whitfield 1890

Sister taxa: Scenella acuminata, Scenella affinis, Scenella amii, Scenella anomala, Scenella augusta, Scenella barrandei, Scenella compressa, Scenella conica, 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, Scenella venillia

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal grazer

Distribution: found only at 227 - Promonotory on west end of Fort Cassin, Lake Champlain. (Ordovician of Vermont)

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