Tergomya - Kiringellida - Hypseloconidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 295272

Alternative combination: Hypseloconus capuloides

Full reference: C.P. Berkey. 1898. Geology of the St. Croix Dalles, part 3. Paleontology. American Geologist 21:270-294

Belongs to Proteroconus according to E. L. Yochelson and G. F. Webers 2006

Sister taxon: Proteroconus eminense

Type specimen: AMNH 22261, a shell. Its type locality is 1 kilometer south of Taylors Falls, half kilometer north of Folsom Island, which is in a Steptoean coastal sandstone in the Franconia Formation of Minnesota.

Ecology: epifaunal grazer