Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae

Alternative combination: Lingula clelandi

Synonym: Lingula ovata Cleland 1903 [replaced name]

Full reference: E. O. Ulrich and G. A. Cooper. 1938. Ozarkian and Canadian Brachiopoda. Geological Society of America Special Paper 13(8):1-323

Belongs to Lingulella according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Ulrich and Cooper 1938 and Walcott 1912

Sister taxa: Lingulella agaue, Lingulella alata, Lingulella amabilis, Lingulella ampla, Lingulella angustior, Lingulella brainerdi, Lingulella buttsi, Lingulella columba, Lingulella cuneata, Lingulella davisi, Lingulella davisii, Lingulella desiderata, Lingulella eucharis, Lingulella ferruginea, Lingulella fuchsi, Lingulella holyokensis, Lingulella huronensis, Lingulella ibicus, Lingulella idahoensis, Lingulella incongrua, Lingulella kiurensis, Lingulella manticula, Lingulella mediostriata, Lingulella morsensis, Lingulella narrawayi, Lingulella nepos, Lingulella obtusa, Lingulella ovata, Lingulella prima, Lingulella prolixa, Lingulella proveedorensis, Lingulella quaestor, Lingulella selwyni, Lingulella texana, Obolus (Lingulella) atavus, Obolus (Lingulella) canius, Obolus (Lingulella) chinensis, Obolus (Lingulella) collicia, Obolus (Lingulella) concinnus, Obolus (Lingulella) damesi, Obolus (Lingulella) isse, Obolus (Lingulella) lens, Obolus (Lingulella) orus, Obolus (Lingulella) pelias, Obolus (Lingulella) quadrilateralis, Obolus (Lingulella) schmalensei, Obolus (Lingulella) septalis, Obolus (Lingulella) spatulus, Obolus (Lingulella) upis, Obolus (Lingulella) wanniecki, Obolus (Lingulella) welleri

Type specimens:

• Lingulella clelandi: USNM 84632, a shell
• Lingula ovata: USNM 84632, a shell. Its type locality is Black Head, Gerringong (USNM coll), which is in a Wordian marine sandstone in the Gerringong Formation of Australia.

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at along East Canada Creek (Ordovician of New York)

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