Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae
Invalid subtaxa: Obolus (Schmidtia) Volborth 1869 [replaced name], Schmidtia Volborth 1869 [replaced name]
Full reference: C. Schuchert and C. M. LeVene. 1929. New names for brachiopod homonyms. The American Journal of Science, Fifth Series 17:119-122
Parent taxon: Obolinae according to A. Williams et al. 2000
See also Cusack et al. 1999, Puura and Holmer 1993, Schuchert and LeVene 1929 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, Oepikites, Palaeobolus, Palaeoglossa, Palaeoschmidtites, Pseudobolus, Rafanoglossa, Sinoglossa, Spinilingula, Spinobolus, Squamilingulella, Stittia, Trigonoglossa, Ungula, Westonia, Westonisca
Subtaxa: Schmidtites celatus
Type: Schmidtia celata
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Arenig of the United Kingdom (2 collections), United States (1: Nevada)
• Ordovician of Australia (2), Estonia (3), Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (23)
• Cambrian to Ordovician of Estonia (11)
• Caerfai of Italy (1)
• Cambrian of Estonia (4), Sweden (1)
Total: 51 collections each including a single occurrence
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