Lingulosacculus Balthasar and Butterfield 2009 (lamp shell)

Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulellotretidae

Full reference: U. Balthasar and N. J. Butterfield. 2009. Early Cambrian "soft-shelled" brachiopods as possible stem-group phoronids. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54:307-314

Parent taxon: Lingulellotretidae according to U. Balthasar and N. J. Butterfield 2009

Sister taxa: Aboriginella, Lingulellotreta, Mirilingula, Vaculina

Subtaxa: Lingulosacculus nuda

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Type: Lingulosacculus nuda

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Mural Fm ( of Alberta)

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