Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Synonyms: Lingula mytiloides Meek and Worthen 1873, Lingula umbonata White 1884
Full reference: B. F. Shumard and G.C. Swallow. 1858. Descriptions of new fossils from the Coal Measures of Missouri and Kansas. Academy of Science of St. Louis Transactions 1:198-227
Belongs to Lingula according to T. E. Yancey 1978
See also Hoare 1961, Meek and Worthen 1873, Mudge et al. 1962, Schuchert 1897, Shumard and Swallow 1858 and White 1884
Sister taxa: Lingula acutangula, Lingula adamsi, Lingula albapinensis, Lingula allingi, Lingula anatina, Lingula aoraki, Lingula arctica, Lingula audebardii, Lingula beani, Lingula beanii, Lingula borealica, Lingula bottnica, Lingula bravardi, Lingula clintoni, Lingula complanata, Lingula craneae, Lingula crassa, Lingula credneri, Lingula cretacea, Lingula davidsoni, Lingula deitersensis, Lingula delia, Lingula demissa, Lingula densa, Lingula derbyi, Lingula desiderata, Lingula divulgata, Lingula dregeri, Lingula elliptica, Lingula elliptica, Lingula foliaceusa, Lingula forbesi, Lingula freboldi, Lingula fuyuanensis, Lingula gorbyi, Lingula halli, Lingula hyperborea, Lingula indianensis, Lingula ingens, Lingula jaspidea, Lingula kedonensis, Lingula kolymaensis, Lingula lamellata, Lingula leana, Lingula ligea, Lingula liurjakhensis, Lingula lonensis, Lingula longoviciensis, Lingula louisianensis, Lingula marginata, Lingula marginia, Lingula meeki, Lingula membranacea, Lingula metensis, Lingula minima, Lingula nanimensis, Lingula nikitini, Lingula nitida, Lingula oblata, Lingula olenekensis, Lingula ovalis, Lingula ovata, Lingula parva, Lingula percorrugata, Lingula pyramidata, Lingula reevei, Lingula reevii, Lingula rostrum, Lingula sacculus, Lingula selwyni, Lingula semen, Lingula spatulata, Lingula squamiformis, Lingula sterlini, Lingula sturti, Lingula subcircularis, Lingula subelliptica, Lingula subovalis, Lingula subspatulata, Lingula subtenuissima, Lingula suessi, Lingula sulcatiferea, Lingula tenuis, Lingula translucida, Lingula truncata, Lingula tumida, Lingula tumidula, Lingula varsoviensis, Lingula whitei, Lingula xinlinensis, Lingulipora zhexiensis
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (15: Idaho, Kansas, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming collections)
• Carboniferous of the Czech Republic (2), Ireland (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (40: California, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 63 collections each including a single occurrence
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