Lingulata - Lingulida - Pseudolingulidae
Full reference: L.E. Holmer. 1991. The systematic position of Pseudolingula Mockwitz and related brachiopods. Brachiopods through time 15-21
Parent taxon: Linguloidea according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Holmer 1991 and Kiessling 2003
Sister taxa: Aulonotretidae, Bistramia, Dysoristidae, Elkaniidae, Eoobolidae, Kyrshabaktellidae, Laima, Lingulasmatidae, Lingulellotretidae, Lingulidae, Lingulipora, Obolidae, Oxlosia, Paterulidae, Timalina, Tomasina, Zhanatellidae
Subtaxa: Bicarinatina Meristopacha Pseudolingula Tarutiglossa Wadiglossa
Type: Pseudolingula
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Libya (6 collections)
• Devonian to Carboniferous of Libya (1)
• Devonian of Libya (8), United States (2: Alaska)
• Silurian of China (3)
• Dobrotivian of Portugal (3), Spain (1)
• Uhaku of Sweden (2)
• Arenig of the United Kingdom (2)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (3: Québec)
• Ordovician of Australia (1), Canada (11: Ontario, Québec), China (2), Estonia (14), Kazakhstan (4), Myanmar (1), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (12), Spain (2), Sweden (4), the United Kingdom (51), United States (50: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania)
• Tremadoc of China (2)
Total: 186 collections including 198 occurrences