Pachyglossella Cooper 1960 (lamp shell)

Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae

Synonym: Pachyglossa Cooper 1956 [replaced name]

Parent taxon: Glossellinae according to J. Hansen and L. E. Holmer 2011

See also Cooper 1956, Cooper 1960, Mitchell 1977, Sepkoski 2002 and Williams et al. 2000

Sister taxa: Anx, Casquella, Eoglossa, Fezzanoglossa, Glossella, Glyptoglossella, Lachrymula, Leptobolus, Libyaeglossa, Plectoglossa, Rafanoglossella, Spondyglossella, Tunisiglossa

Subtaxa: Pachyglossella dorsiconvexa

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Type: Pachyglossa dorsiconvexa

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Chazyan of United States (1: Alabama collection)

• Arenig of China (1)

• Ordovician of Norway (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (14: Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Virginia)

Total: 21 collections including 26 occurrences

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