Lingulella

Lingulella Temporal range: Middle Cambrian - Sandbian PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
L. caelata[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Brachiopoda
Class:	Lingulata
Order:	Lingulida
Family:	Obolidae
Genus:	Lingulella Salter, 1886
Species
L. waptaensis Walcott, 1924 L. davisii (McCoy, 1851) = Lingula davisii L. galba Cooper, 1956

Lingulella is a genus of phosphatic-shelled^[2] brachiopod. It is known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale (Canada) to the Upper Ordovician Bromide Formation (United States) in North America.^[3][4] 346 specimens of Lingulella are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.66% of the community.^[5]

Some specimens of the brachiopod preserve the pedicle intact, which was long and thin.^[2] The brachiopod is thought to have been a generalist, as it appears consistently throughout the strata of the Greater Phyllopod bed.

External links

• "Lingulella waptaensis". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011.

References

1. Charles Doolittle Walcott (1886). Second contribution to the studies on the Cambrian faunas of North America. 30 of Geological Survey bulletin. Govt. Print. Off.,. p. 369.
2. Pettersson Stolk, S.; Holmer, L. E.; Caron, J. B. (2010). "First record of the brachiopod Lingulella waptaensis with pedicle from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale". Acta Zoologica 91: 150. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6395.2009.00394.x.
3. Amsden, T.W. Catalogue of Fossils from the Middle and Upper Ordovician of Oklahoma. Oklahoma Geological Survey, Circular 43. 1957
4. Byrnes, J.G. Notes on the Nature and Environmental Significance of the Receptaculitaceae. Lethaia, Vol. 1, pp. 368-381 (1968)
5. Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS 21 (5): 451–65. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022.