Brachiopoda - Tommotiida - Lapworthellidae
Full reference: C. Duan. 1984. Small shelly fossils from the Lower Cambrian Xihaoping Formation the Shennongjia district, Hubei Province - hyoliths and fossil skeletons of unknown affinities. Bulletin of the Tianjin Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources 7:141-188
Belongs to Lapworthella according to C. Duan 1984
Sister taxa: Lapworthella ablorta, Lapworthella annulata, Lapworthella cornu, Lapworthella dentata, Lapworthella fasciculata, Lapworthella gezhongwuensis, Lapworthella hubeiensis, Lapworthella hubeinensis, Lapworthella nigra, Lapworthella puttapensis, Lapworthella rostriptutea, Lapworthella schodakensis, Lapworthella subrectangulata, Stenothecopsis heraultensis
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Lapworthella sinensis in the database
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