†family Tommotiidae Missarzhevsky 1970 (lamp shell)

Brachiopoda - Tommotiida - Tommotiidae

Full reference: V. V. Missarzhevsky. 1970. New generic name Tommotia, nom. nov. Paleontological Journal 1970(2):100-100

Parent taxon: Tommotiida according to C. B. Skovsted et al. 2009

See also Bengtson 1970, Li and Xiao 2004 and Missarzhevsky 1970

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

Subtaxa: Camenella

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Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cambrian of Australia (6 collections), Canada (7: Nova Scotia), Kazakhstan (2), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (32), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (1)

• Placentian of United States (1: Massachusetts)

Total: 53 collections including 89 occurrences

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