Lingulasma matutinum Cooper 1956 (lamp shell)

Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulasmatidae

Full reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245

Belongs to Lingulasma according to G. A. Cooper 1956

Sister taxa: Lingulasma changi, Lingulasma cobourgensis, Lingulasma hyacinthensis, Lingulasma ogontzensis, Lingulasma philomela, Lingulasma progne, Lingulasma quaestor, Lingulasma whitfieldi

Type specimen: USNM 109348a, a valve. Its type locality is Both sides of the old road in the cedar glade ¼ mile southeast of Friendsville, which is in a Chazyan carbonate limestone in the Arline Formation of Tennessee.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Both sides of the old road in the cedar glade ¼ mile southeast of Friendsville

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