Watsonella Grabau 1900 (mollusk)

Helcionelloida - Stenothecidae

Synonyms: Heraultia Cobbold 1935, Heraultipegma Pojeta and Runnegar 1976

Full reference: A. W. Grabau. 1900. Palaeontology of the Cambrian terranes of the Boston Basin. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History 4:601-694

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

See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Kouchinsky et al. 2017, Landing 1988, Parkhaev 2001, Parkhaev 2002, Pojeta and Runnegar 1976, Sepkoski 2002 and Wagner 1997

Sister taxa: Acanthotheca, Eurekapegma, Mellopegma, Planutenia, Pseudoscenella, Stenotheca, Stenothecinae, Watsonellinae

Subtaxa: Watsonella crosbyi Watsonella terranovica

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Type: Watsonella crosbyi

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cambrian of Australia (3 collections), Canada (21: Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia), China (37), the Russian Federation (14), Saint Pierre and Miquelon (1), United States (2: Massachusetts, Nevada)

• Placentian of United States (1: Massachusetts)

Total: 79 collections including 80 occurrences

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