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
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