Lingulella
| Lingulella Temporal range: Middle Cambrian - Sandbian | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
| Class: | Lingulata |
| Order: | Lingulida |
| Family: | Obolidae |
| Genus: | Lingulella Salter, 1886 |
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Lingulella is a genus of phosphatic-shelled[2] brachiopod. It is known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale (Canada) to the Upper Ordovician Bromide Formation (United States) in North America.[3][4] 346 specimens of Lingulella are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.66% of the community.[5]
Some specimens of the brachiopod preserve the pedicle intact, which was long and thin.[2] The brachiopod is thought to have been a generalist, as it appears consistently throughout the strata of the Greater Phyllopod bed.
External links
- "Lingulella waptaensis". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011.
References
- ↑ Charles Doolittle Walcott (1886). Second contribution to the studies on the Cambrian faunas of North America. 30 of Geological Survey bulletin. Govt. Print. Off.,. p. 369.
- 1 2 Pettersson Stolk, S.; Holmer, L. E.; Caron, J. B. (2010). "First record of the brachiopod Lingulella waptaensis with pedicle from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale". Acta Zoologica. 91: 150. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6395.2009.00394.x.
- ↑ Amsden, T.W. Catalogue of Fossils from the Middle and Upper Ordovician of Oklahoma. Oklahoma Geological Survey, Circular 43. 1957
- ↑ Byrnes, J.G. Notes on the Nature and Environmental Significance of the Receptaculitaceae. Lethaia, Vol. 1, pp. 368-381 (1968)
- ↑ Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022.
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