Lapworthella Cobbold 1921 (lamp shell)

Brachiopoda - Tommotiida - Lapworthellidae

Synonym: Stenothecopsis Cobbold 1935

Full reference: E.S. Cobbold. 1921. The Cambrian horizons of Comley (Shropshire) and their Brachiopoda, Pteropoda, Gasteropoda and etc. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 76:325-386

Parent taxon: Lapworthellidae according to E. Landing et al. 2008

See also Cobbold 1921, Duan 1984, Fisher 1962, Landing 1984, Qian and Zhang 1983, Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Lapworthella ablorta Lapworthella annulata Lapworthella cornu Lapworthella dentata Lapworthella fasciculata Lapworthella gezhongwuensis Lapworthella hubeiensis Lapworthella hubeinensis Lapworthella nigra Lapworthella puttapensis Lapworthella rostriptutea Lapworthella schodakensis Lapworthella sinensis Lapworthella subrectangulata Stenothecopsis heraultensis

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Type: Lapworthella nigra

Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cambrian of Antarctica (1 collection), Australia (27), Canada (11: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia), China (16), India (1), Mongolia (3), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (17), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (8), United States (7: Massachusetts, New York)

Total: 94 collections including 108 occurrences

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