Helcionella

Helcionella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
(unranked): incertae sedis
Class: Helcionelloida
Order: Helcionelliformes
Family: Helcionellidae
Genus: Helcionella
Grabau & Shimer, 1909
Species
  • H. bella Feng et al.
  • H. emargina Cobbold, 1919
  • H. oblonga Cobbold, 1921
  • (Incomplete list, please expand)

Helcionella is the archetypical genus of helcionellid. Its shells are around about a centimetre in size; they are strongly endogastric, with the tip of the shell extending beyond the rear extremity of the shell's aperture.[1]

  1. ^ Cobbold, E. S. (1919). "I.—Cambrian Hyolithidæ, etc., from Hartshill in the Nuneaton District, Warwickshire". Geological Magazine 6: 149-158. doi:10.1017/S0016756800202483.  edit