†family Botsfordiidae Schindewolf 1955 (lamp shell)

Lingulata - Lingulida - Botsfordiidae

Full reference: O.H. Schindewolf. 1955. Über einige kambrische Guttung inartikulater Brachiopoden. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaeontologie 12:538-557

Parent taxon: Acrotheloidea according to C. B. Skovsted et al. 2017

See also Skovsted and Holmer 2005 and Williams et al. 2000

Sister taxon: Acrothelidae

Subtaxa: Bomina Botsfordia Curdus Diandongia Edreja Glyptias Karathele Minlatonia Neobolus

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Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cambrian of Antarctica (1 collection), Australia (17), Canada (13: Labrador, Newfoundland), China (36), Greenland (14), India (1), Kazakhstan (6), Mauritania (2), Pakistan (3), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (1), United States (7: New York)

• Caerfai of India (1)

Total: 103 collections including 111 occurrences

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