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: Atansoria, Elliptoglossinae, Eodicellomus, Fordinia, Foveola, Glossellinae, Lingulella, Lingulellinae, Luthieria, Prastavia, Xianshanella
Subtaxa: Aksarinaia Anomaloglossa Apatobolus 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 Czechia (1), South Africa (1), United States (1: Missouri)
• Silurian of Australia (2), United States (11: New York)
• Uhaku of Sweden (2)
• Dobrotivian of France (1), Portugal (1), Spain (1)
• Chazyan of Canada (6: Ontario, Quebec), United States (6: Alabama, New York, Tennessee, Virginia)
• 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)
• Klabava of Czechia (2), France (1)
• Dawan of China (1)
• Canadian of United States (1: Maryland)
• Ordovician of Argentina (10), Australia (30), Bolivia (1), Canada (10: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario), China (25), Colombia (1), Czechia (6), Estonia (8), France (2), Greenland (2), Iran (1), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (5), Lithuania (2), Mexico (3), Norway (18), Peru (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (8), Spain (4), Sweden (13), the United Kingdom (108), United States (23: Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia)
• Skullrockian of Canada (2: Alberta, British Columbia), Greenland (1)
• Cambrian to Ordovician of Estonia (11), the Russian Federation (2)
• Cambrian of Australia (24), Canada (6: British Columbia, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia), China (19), Czechia (1), Estonia (23), India (1), Israel (3), Kazakhstan (72), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mexico (2), New Zealand (1), Norway (3), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (7), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (5), United States (94: California, Idaho, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming)
• Templetonian of Australia (3)
• Amgan of Czechia (1), Kazakhstan (3), the Russian Federation (1)
• Solvan of Australia (1)
• Caerfai of Italy (1), Jordan (1)
Total: 660 collections including 799 occurrences