Helcionella
Helcionella Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | †Helcionelloida |
Order: | †Helcionelliformes |
Family: | †Helcionellidae |
Genus: | †Helcionella Grabau & Shimer, 1909 |
Species | |
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Synonyms | |
Pseudotheca Redlich 1899 |
Helcionella is a genus of helcionellid, a fossil marine invertebrate animal that is considered to be a mollusk and may possibly be a gastropod. The shells of these animals are about a centimetre in size. The tip of the shell extends beyond the rear extremity of the shell's aperture, and the shell is "endogastric" in shape.[1]
Helcionella is the type genus of the family Helcionellidae.
References
- ^ Cobbold, E. S. (1919). "I.—Cambrian Hyolithidæ, etc., from Hartshill in the Nuneaton District, Warwickshire". Geological Magazine. 6: 149–158. doi:10.1017/S0016756800202483.
- A. W. Grabau and H. W. Shimer. 1909. North American index fossils, invertebrates 1-909