†superfamily Acrotheloidea Walcott 1908 (lamp shell)

Lingulata - Lingulida

Full reference: C. W. Walcott. 1908. Cambrian Brachiopoda: descriptions of new genera and species. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 53(3):53-137

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

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

Sister taxa: Craniidina, Discinoidea, Linguloidea, Shouxianella, Trimerellacea

Subtaxa: Acrothelidae Botsfordiidae

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Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Ordovician of China (3 collections), the Czech Republic (3), Iran (1), Norway (1), Poland (1), Sweden (4)

• Klabava of the Czech Republic (1)

• Arenig of China (1)

• Marjumian of United States (4: Texas, Utah)

• Cambrian of Antarctica (2), Australia (43), Canada (41: British Columbia, Labrador, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut), China (37), the Czech Republic (5), Denmark (3), France (1), Greenland (16), India (2), Kazakhstan (11), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mauritania (2), Mexico (3), New Zealand (1), Norway (3), Pakistan (3), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (3), Sweden (4), United States (31: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah)

Total: 232 collections including 263 occurrences

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