Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae
Parent taxon: Linguloidea according to L.E. Holmer et al. 2017
See also Brock and Cooper 1993, Bruton and Harper 2000, Cocks 2019, Cooper 1976, Hansen and Holmer 2011, Henningsmoen 1952, Holmer 1986, Holmer 1989, Jin et al. 1993, Mason 1935, Mitchell 1977, Popov 2000, Popov et al. 2000, Puura and Holmer 1993, Roberts and Jell 1990, Sutton et al. 2000, Ulrich and Cooper 1936, Wang et al. 2014, Williams et al. 2000, Wright 1963, Zhan and Jin 2005 and Zhan et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Aulonotretidae, Bistramia, Dysoristidae, Elkaniidae, Eoobolidae, Kyrshabaktellidae, Laima, Lingulasmatidae, Lingulellotretidae, Lingulidae, Lingulipora, Oxlosia, Paterulidae, Pseudolingulidae, Timalina, Tomasina, Zhanatellidae
Subtaxa: Atansoria Elliptoglossinae Eodicellomus Fordinia Foveola Glossellinae Lingulella Lingulellinae Luthieria Obolinae Prastavia Xianshanella
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Peru (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1), United States (15: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas)
• Devonian of the Czech Republic (3), South Africa (1), United States (1: Missouri), Vietnam (2)
• Silurian of Australia (3), Canada (1: Ontario), United States (12: Iowa, New York)
• Dobrotivian of France (1), Portugal (1), Spain (1)
• Uhaku of Sweden (6)
• Letna of the Czech Republic (1)
• Chazyan of Canada (8: Ontario, Quebec), United States (22: Alabama, New York, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Utah)
• Fennian of France (1)
• Volkhov of Estonia (4), Lithuania (2)
• Klabava of the Czech Republic (3), France (1)
• Dawan of China (1)
• Arenig of Argentina (1), Canada (1: Yukon), China (12), France (3), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (3), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (13), United States (6: Montana, Nevada, North Dakota)
• Arenigian of United States (3: Utah)
• Ordovician to Silurian of South Africa (1)
• Canadian of United States (1: Maryland)
• Ordovician of Argentina (9), Australia (38), Bolivia (1), Canada (25: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (27), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (13), Estonia (19), France (2), Greenland (2), Iran (5), Ireland (5), Kazakhstan (8), Kyrgyzstan (2), Libya (2), Lithuania (2), Mexico (3), Norway (30), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (9), South Korea (4), Spain (4), Sweden (34), the United Kingdom (142), United States (97: Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia)
• Tremadoc of Argentina (6), China (16), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (4), France (3), Iran (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Montana)
• Cressagian of the United Kingdom (3)
• Skullrockian of Canada (3: Alberta, British Columbia), Greenland (1), United States (2: Utah)
• Ibexian of United States (2: California)
• Cambrian to Ordovician of Canada (1: Quebec), Estonia (11), the Russian Federation (2)
• Cambrian of Antarctica (2), Argentina (1), Australia (51), Canada (19: British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia), China (46), the Czech Republic (3), Denmark (2), Estonia (23), Greenland (5), India (1), Israel (3), Kazakhstan (79), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mauritania (1), Mexico (11), New Zealand (2), Norway (4), Pakistan (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (9), South Korea (1), Sweden (5), the United Kingdom (12), United States (126: Arizona, California, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming)
• Amgan of the Czech Republic (1), Kazakhstan (3), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Solvan of Australia (1), Canada (2: British Columbia), the Czech Republic (1)
• Ordian of Australia (1)
• Delamaran of Canada (22: British Columbia), United States (8: California, Idaho, Montana, Utah)
• Caerfai of Italy (5), Jordan (1)
Total: 1152 collections including 1482 occurrences