Lingulata - Lingulida - Botsfordiidae
Full reference: G. F. Matthew. 1891. Illustrations of the fauna of the St. John Group, No. 5. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada (Series 1, Section 4) 8:123-166
Parent taxon: Botsfordiidae according to C. B. Skovsted et al. 2017
See also Bengtson 1992, Schindewolf 1955, Sepkoski 2002, Skovsted and Holmer 2005 and Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Bomina, Curdus, Diandongia, Edreja, Glyptias, Karathele, Minlatonia, Neobolus
Subtaxa: Botsfordia barrandei Botsfordia caelata Botsfordia minuta Botsfordia paucigranulata Botsfordia pulcher
Type: Obolus pulcher
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Caerfai of India (1 collection)
• Cambrian of Australia (11), Canada (13: Labrador, Newfoundland), China (1), Greenland (14), Kazakhstan (5), Mauritania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (1), United States (7: New York)
Total: 55 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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