Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae
Alternative combination: Glyptoglossa cavellosa
Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245
Belongs to Glyptoglossella according to G. A. Cooper 1960
See also Cooper 1956
Sister taxon: Glyptoglossa ardmillanensis
Type specimen: USNM 109273. Its type locality is South side of U. S. Highway 30, 1 mile S. 70° W. of St. Thomas, which is in a Blackriveran carbonate limestone in the Chambersburg Formation of Pennsylvania.
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Ordovician of United States (2: Maryland, Pennsylvania collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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