Shetlandia Wrona 2004 (lamp shell)

Brachiopoda - Tommotiida

Full reference: R. Wrona. 2004. Cambrian microfossils from glacial erratics of King George Island, Antarctica. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49:13-56

Parent taxon: Tommotiida according to T. M. Claybourn et al. 2021

See also Skovsted 2006

Sister taxa: Eccentrotheca, Kelanellidae, Kennardiidae, Kulparina, Lapworthellidae, Mitrosagophora, Paterimitra, Porcauricula, Sunnaginiidae, Tannuolinidae, Tommotiidae, Wufengella

Subtaxa: Shetlandia multiplicata

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Type: Shetlandia multiplicata

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at HRA 14. Holyoake Range (Cambrian of Antarctica)

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