Yochelcionella Temporal range:
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Drawing of a reconstruction of Yochelcionella cyrano as a snail-like organism | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | †Helcionelloida |
Order: | †Helcionelliformes |
Family: | †Yochelcionellidae |
Genus: | †Yochelcionella Runegar & Pojeta, 1974 |
Species | |
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Yochelcionella is an extinct genus of basal molluscs which lived during the Tommotian epoch, the first epoch of the Cambrian period. This genus is often reconstructed to resemble snails.
Yochelcionella is the type genus of the family Yochelcionellidae.[1]