Lingulasma ogontzensis Hussey 1928 (lamp shell)

Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulasmatidae

Alternative combination: Lingula ogontzensis

Full reference: R. C. Hussey. 1928. Contributions to the geology of Foxe Land, Baffin Island. Part III: corals, brachiopods, gastropods and ostracods from Putnam Highland. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 3(3):71-76

Belongs to Lingulasma according to P. J. Wagner 2023

See also Hussey 1928

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

Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Stratton's Dock (Ordovician of Michigan)

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