MolluscaBase taxon details
Protowenella Runnegar & Jell, 1976 †
1427920 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1427920)
accepted
Genus
Protowenella flemingi Runnegar & Jell, 1976 † (type by original designation)
- Species Protowenella cobbensis MacKinnon, 1985 †
- Species Protowenella flemingi Runnegar & Jell, 1976 †
- Species Protowenella huainanensis B. Zhou & L. Xiao, 1984 †
- Species Protowenella lancaraensis Wotte, 2006 †
- Species Protowenella plena Missarzhevsky, 1981 †
- Species Protowenella primaria B. Zhou & L. Xiao, 1984 †
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Runnegar, B.; Jell, P. A. (1976). Australian Middle Cambrian molluscs and their bearing on early molluscan evolution. <em>Alcheringa.</em> 1(2): 109−138.
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Fossil range Cambrian
Taxonomy Wotte (2006: 149) places this genus to the family Helcionellidae
Fossil range Cambrian [details]
Taxonomy Wotte (2006: 149) places this genus to the family Helcionellidae
Taxonomy Wotte (2006: 149) places this genus to the family Helcionellidae [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Protowenella Runnegar & Jell, 1976 †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1427920 on 2025-09-12
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original description
Runnegar, B.; Jell, P. A. (1976). Australian Middle Cambrian molluscs and their bearing on early molluscan evolution. <em>Alcheringa.</em> 1(2): 109−138.
page(s): 133 [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Parkhaev, P. Y. (2019). The Cambrian molluscs of Australia: overview of taxonomy, biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography [In Russian]. <em>Stratigrafiya. Geologicheskaya Korrelyatsiya.</em> 27(2): 52-79., available online at https://doi.org/10.31857/s0869-592x27252-79
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additional source Missarzhevsky, V. V. (1989). Drevneishie skeletnye okamenelosti i stratigrafiia pogranichnykh tolshch Dokembriia i Kembriia [Oldest skeletal fossils and stratigraphy of Precambrian and Cambrian boundary beds]. <em>Trudy Geologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiia Nauk SSSR.</em> 443: 237 pp., 32 pls.
page(s): 181 [details]
page(s): 133 [details] Available for editors

basis of record Parkhaev, P. Y. (2019). The Cambrian molluscs of Australia: overview of taxonomy, biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography [In Russian]. <em>Stratigrafiya. Geologicheskaya Korrelyatsiya.</em> 27(2): 52-79., available online at https://doi.org/10.31857/s0869-592x27252-79
page(s): 56 [details] Available for editors

additional source Missarzhevsky, V. V. (1989). Drevneishie skeletnye okamenelosti i stratigrafiia pogranichnykh tolshch Dokembriia i Kembriia [Oldest skeletal fossils and stratigraphy of Precambrian and Cambrian boundary beds]. <em>Trudy Geologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiia Nauk SSSR.</em> 443: 237 pp., 32 pls.
page(s): 181 [details]