Lingularia notialis Holmer and Bengtson 2009 (lamp shell)

Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae

Full reference: L. E. Holmer and P. Bengtson. 2009. The first occurrence of a lingulid brachiopod from the Cretaceous of Sergipe, Brazil, with a restudy of ‘Lingula’ bagualensis Wilckens, 1905 from southern Patagonia. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 83:255-266

Belongs to Lingularia according to L. E. Holmer and P. Bengtson 2009

Sister taxa: Lingularia borealis, Lingularia krausei, Lingularia polaris, Lingularia smirnovae, Lingularia squamiformis, Lingularia tenuissima, Lingularia yini

Type specimen: MN 8283-I, a shell. Its type locality is Loc. Otieiro 5, Sergipe Basin [Cotinguiba Fm], which is in a Turonian carbonate lime mudstone in the Cotinguiba Formation of Brazil.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Loc. Otieiro 5, Sergipe Basin [Cotinguiba Fm]

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