Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae
Parent taxon: Obolidae according to J. Hansen and L. E. Holmer 2011
See also Brock and Cooper 1993, Bruton and Harper 2000, Cooper 1976, Holmer 1989, Mason 1935, Popov 2000, Puura and Holmer 1993 and Williams et al. 2000
Sister taxa: Elliptoglossinae, Eodicellomus, Fordinia, Foveola, Glossellinae, Lingulella, Lingulellinae, Prastavia, Xianshanella
Subtaxa: Aksarinaia Anomaloglossa Apatobolus Atansoria Barbatulella Dicellomus Ectenoglossa Expellobolus Experilingula Famatinobolus Gorjanskya Kosagittella Lenticulella Leontiella Leptembolon Libecoviella Lindinella Lingulepis Lingulobolus Lithobolus Notiobolus Obolus Oepikites Palaeobolus Palaeoglossa Palaeoschmidtites Pseudobolus Rafanoglossa Schmidtites Sinoglossa Spinilingula Spinobolus Squamilingulella Stittia Trigonoglossa Ungula Westonia Westonisca
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Peru (1 collection), United States (15: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas)
• Devonian of the Czech Republic (1), South Africa (1), United States (1: Missouri)
• Silurian of Australia (2), United States (11: New York)
• Dobrotivian of France (1), Portugal (1), Spain (1)
• Uhaku of Sweden (2)
• Chazyan of Canada (6: Ontario, Quebec), United States (6: Alabama, New York, Tennessee, Virginia)
• Fennian of France (1)
• Volkhov of Estonia (2), Lithuania (1)
• Dawan of China (1)
• Klabava of the Czech Republic (3), France (1)
• Arenig of Argentina (1), Canada (1: Yukon), China (6), France (2), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (3), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (13), United States (1: Nevada)
• Ordovician of Argentina (3), Australia (30), Bolivia (1), Canada (10: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario), China (15), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (3), Estonia (6), France (1), Greenland (2), Iran (1), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (6), Lithuania (1), Mexico (3), Norway (18), Peru (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (5), Spain (2), Sweden (13), the United Kingdom (106), United States (22: Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia)
• Canadian of United States (1: Maryland)
• Cressagian of the United Kingdom (2)
• Tremadoc of Argentina (4), China (10), the Czech Republic (4), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), United States (1: Montana)
• Skullrockian of Canada (2: Alberta, British Columbia), Greenland (1)
• Solvan of Australia (1)
• Amgan of the Czech Republic (1), Kazakhstan (3)
• Delamaran of Canada (1: British Columbia), United States (3: California, Montana, Utah)
• Cambrian to Ordovician of Estonia (11), the Russian Federation (1)
• Cambrian of Australia (27), Canada (5: British Columbia, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia), China (18), the Czech Republic (1), Estonia (23), Israel (3), Kazakhstan (72), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mexico (2), New Zealand (1), Norway (3), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (4), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (5), United States (88: California, Idaho, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming)
• Caerfai of India (1), Italy (1), Jordan (1)
Total: 649 collections including 776 occurrences