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Lingulella
Extinct genus of brachiopods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lingulella is a genus of phosphatic-shelled[6] brachiopod. It is known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale (Canada) to the Upper Ordovician Bromide Formation (United States) in North America.[7][8] 346 specimens of Lingulella are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.66% of the community.[9]
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Lingulella | |
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L. caelata[1] | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
Class: | Lingulata |
Order: | Lingulida |
Family: | Obolidae |
Genus: | Lingulella Salter, 1886[2] |
Type species | |
Lingula davisii[3][4] M'Coy, 1851[5] | |
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Some specimens of the brachiopod preserve the pedicle intact, which was long and thin.[6] The brachiopod is thought to have been a generalist, as it appears consistently throughout the strata of the Greater Phyllopod bed.