Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae
Parent taxon: Linguloidea according to L.E. Holmer et al. 2017
See also Brock and Cooper 1993, Bruton and Harper 2000, Cooper 1976, Hansen and Holmer 2011, Henningsmoen 1952, Holmer 1986, Holmer 1989, Jin et al. 1993, Mason 1935, Mitchell 1977, Popov 2000, Popov et al. 2000, Puura and Holmer 1993, Roberts and Jell 1990, Sutton et al. 2000, Ulrich and Cooper 1936, Wang et al. 2014, Williams et al. 2000, Wright 1963, Zhan and Jin 2005 and Zhan et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Aulonotretidae, Bistramia, Dysoristidae, Elkaniidae, Eoobolidae, Kyrshabaktellidae, Laima, Lingulasmatidae, Lingulellotretidae, Lingulidae, Lingulipora, Oxlosia, Paterulidae, Pseudolingulidae, Timalina, Tomasina, Zhanatellidae
Subtaxa: Elliptoglossinae Eodicellomus Fordinia Foveola Glossellinae Lingulella Lingulellinae Obolinae Prastavia Xianshanella
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Peru (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1), United States (15: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas)
• Devonian of the Czech Republic (3), South Africa (1), United States (1: Missouri), Vietnam (2)
• Silurian of Australia (3), Canada (1: Ontario), United States (12: Iowa, New York)
• Dobrotivian of the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Portugal (1), Spain (1)
• Uhaku of Sweden (6)
• Letna of the Czech Republic (1)
• Chazyan of Canada (8: Ontario, Quebec), United States (22: Alabama, New York, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Utah)
• Fennian of France (1)
• Volkhov of Estonia (4), Lithuania (2)
• Arenigian of United States (3: Utah)
• Dawan of China (1)
• Klabava of the Czech Republic (4), France (1)
• Arenig of Argentina (1), Canada (1: Yukon), China (12), France (3), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (3), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (13), United States (6: Montana, Nevada, North Dakota)
• Ordovician to Silurian of South Africa (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (3), Australia (38), Bolivia (1), Canada (25: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (27), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (12), Estonia (19), France (2), Greenland (2), Iran (5), Ireland (5), Kazakhstan (8), Kyrgyzstan (2), Libya (2), Lithuania (2), Mexico (3), Norway (30), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (7), South Korea (4), Spain (4), Sweden (34), the United Kingdom (142), United States (97: Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia)
• Canadian of United States (1: Maryland)
• Tremadoc of Argentina (6), China (16), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (5), France (3), Iran (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Montana)
• Cressagian of the United Kingdom (3)
• Skullrockian of Canada (3: Alberta, British Columbia), Greenland (1), United States (2: Utah)
• Ibexian of United States (2: California)
• Amgan of the Czech Republic (1), Kazakhstan (3), Norway (1)
• Solvan of Australia (1), Canada (2: British Columbia), the Czech Republic (1)
• Delamaran of Canada (21: British Columbia), United States (8: California, Idaho, Montana, Utah)
• Ordian of Australia (1)
• Cambrian to Ordovician of Canada (1: Quebec), Estonia (11), the Russian Federation (1)
• Caerfai of India (1), Italy (5), Jordan (1)
• Cambrian of Antarctica (2), Argentina (1), Australia (51), Canada (19: British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia), China (45), the Czech Republic (3), Denmark (2), Estonia (23), Greenland (5), Israel (3), Kazakhstan (79), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mauritania (1), Mexico (7), New Zealand (2), Norway (4), Pakistan (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (6), South Korea (1), Sweden (5), the United Kingdom (12), United States (126: Arizona, California, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming)
Total: 1135 collections including 1449 occurrences