Ilsanella paupera Billings 1872 (mollusk)

Helcionelloida - Helcionellida - Helcionellidae

Alternative combinations: Bemella pauper, Stenotheca pauper, Stenotheca rugosa pauper

Full reference: E. Billings. 1872. On some fossils from the primordial rocks of Newfoundland. Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science 6:465-479

Belongs to Ilsanella according to P. Yu. Parkhaev 2001

See also Billings 1872, Brock and Cooper 1993, Grabau 1900 and Shaler and Foerste 1888

Sister taxa: Ilsanella applanata, Ilsanella atdabanica, Ilsanella coreanicum, Ilsanella critica, Ilsanella diversa, Ilsanella enallaxa, Ilsanella galinae, Ilsanella historica, Ilsanella oblonga, Ilsanella orectus, Ilsanella plana, Ilsanella reticulata, Ilsanella rozanovi, Ilsanella savitskii, Ilsanella simplex, Ilsanella yorkensis, Ginella granda, Ginella savitzkii, Ginella altaica

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Coll. 6635RES342 - Wirrealpa Lmst, Ten Mile Creek (Cambrian of Australia)

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