Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae
Parent taxon: Obolinae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Puura and Holmer 1993 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Aksarinaia, Anomaloglossa, Apatobolus, Atansoria, Barbatulella, Dicellomus, Ectenoglossa, Expellobolus, Experilingula, Famatinobolus, Gorjanskya, Kosagittella, Lenticulella, Leontiella, Leptembolon, Libecoviella, Lindinella, Lingulepis, Lingulobolus, Lithobolus, Notiobolus, Obolus, Palaeobolus, Palaeoglossa, Palaeoschmidtites, Pseudobolus, Rafanoglossa, Schmidtites, Sinoglossa, Spinilingula, Spinobolus, Squamilingulella, Stittia, Trigonoglossa, Ungula, Westonia, Westonisca
Subtaxa: Oepikites acutes Oepikites elongatus Oepikites fragilis Oepikites kitatiensis Oepikites macilentus Oepikites obtusus Oepikites triquetrus
Type: Oepikites macilentus
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Estonia (1 collection), Sweden (1)
• Cambrian to Ordovician of Estonia (11)
• Cambrian of Estonia (16), Kazakhstan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), the Russian Federation (4)
Total: 35 collections including 38 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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