Lingulella
genus of brachiopods
Lingulella is a genus of phosphatic-shelled brachiopod. It is known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale (Canada) to the Upper Ordovician Bromide Formation (United States) in North America.
346 specimens of Lingulella are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.66% of the community.
Some specimens of the brachiopod preserve the pedicle intact, which was long and thin. The brachiopod is thought to have been a generalist, as it appears consistently throughout the strata of the Greater Phyllopod bed.
Species
The following species have been identified:
Reclassified species
L. acuminata Walcott, 1908 (current name Lingulepis acuminata Conrad)
L. acuta Pelman, 1977
L. acutangula (current name Lingulepis acutangulus Roemer, 1849)
L. africana Legrand, 1974
Distribution
Fossils of Lingulella have been found in:
Cambrian
Australia, Canada (British Columbia, New Brunswick), China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Greenland, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, the Russian Federation, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States (Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming).
Ordovician
Argentina, Australia, Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec), China, Colombia (Serranía de la Macarena, Meta), the Czech Republic, France, Ireland, Mexico, Peru, Poland, the Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States (Alabama, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia).
Devonian
Vietnam.
References
External links
"Lingulella waptaensis". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery.
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