Subphylum

Linguliformea Williams, Carlson, Brunton, Holmer et Popov, 1996

Selection of related publications

Vinn, O., Holmer, L. E., Wilson, M. A. 2024. Evolution of brachiopod symbiosis in the early Paleozoic. Historical Biology 36, 7, 1274-1294. DOI:10.1080/08912963.2023.2212368

Vinn, O., Holmer, L. E., Wilson, M. A., Isakar, M., Toom, U. 2023. A Rowellella (Lingulata, Brachiopoda) nestler in a Trypanites boring from the Middle Ordovician of Estonia: An early colonizer of hard substrate borings. Palaios 38, 5, 240-245. DOI:10.2110/palo.2023.003

Vinn, O., Wilson, M., Holmer, L. E., Ernst, A., Tinn, O., Toom, U. 2022. Diverse endobiotic symbiont fauna from the late Katian (Late Ordovician) of Estonia. Palaeontologia Electronica 25, 3, 1-13. DOI:10.26879/1232

Vinn, O., Holmer, L. E., Wilson, M. A., Isakar, M., Toom, U. 2021. Possible drill holes and pseudoborings in obolid shells from the Cambrian/Ordovician boundary beds of Estonia and the uppermost Cambrian of NW Russia. Historical Biology 33, 12, 3579–3584. DOI:10.1080/08912963.2021.1878355

Holmer, L. E., Yue, L., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Z. 2019. The problematic lingulate brachiopod Aulonotreta from the Ordovician (Dapingian–Darriwilian) of Baltoscandia. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 68, 4, 206-224. DOI:10.3176/earth.2019.15

Holmer, L. E., Zhang, Z., Topper, T. P., Popov, L., Claybourn, T. M. 2018. The attachment strategies of Cambrian kutorginate brachiopods: the curious case of two pedicle openings and their phylogenetic significance. Journal of Paleontology 92, 1, 33-39. DOI:10.1017/jpa.2017.76

Holmer, L. E., Popov, L. E., Ghobadi Pour, M., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Z. 2017. Unusual pitted Ordovician brachiopods from the East Baltic: the significance of coarsely pitted ornamentations in linguliforms. Papers in Palaeontology 3, 3, 387-399. Wiley. DOI:10.1002/spp2.1080

Ushatinskaya, G. T., Korovnikov, I. V. 2016. Revision of the Superfamily Acrotheloidea (Brachiopoda, Class Linguliformea, Order Lingulida) from the Lower and Middle Cambrian of the Siberian Platform. Paleontological Journal 50, 5, 450-462. DOI:10.1134/S0031030116050130

Lang, L., Kirsimäe, K., Vahur, S. 2016. Diagenetic fate of bioapatite in linguliform brachiopods: multiple apatite phases in shells of Cambrian lingulate brachiopod Ungula ingrica (Eichwald). Lethaia 49, 1, 13-27. Wiley. DOI:10.1111/let.12127

Butler, A. D., Streng, M., Holmer, L. E., Babcock, L. E. 2015. Exceptionally preserved Mickwitzia from the Indian Springs Lagerstätte (Cambrian Stage 3), Nevada. Journal of Paleontology 89, 6, 933-955. DOI:10.1017/jpa.2016.8

Lang, L. 2015. Baculate shell structure in Early Palaeozoic linguliform brachiopods. Dissertationes Geologicae Universitatis Tartuensis 40, 1-113. University of Tartu Press.

Lang, L., Puura, I. 2013. Phosphatized organic nanostructures in the Cambrian linguloid brachiopod Ungula inornata (Mickwitz). Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 62, 3, 121-130. DOI:10.3176/earth.2013.10

Lang, L., Uibopuu, E., Puura, I. 2011. Nanostructures in Palaeozoic linguloid brachiopods. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 41, 359−366.

Lang, L., Puura, I. 2009. Systematic position, distribution, and shell structure of the Devonian linguloid brachiopod Bicarinatina bicarinata (Kutorga, 1837). Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 58, 1, 63-70. DOI:10.3176/earth.2009.1.06

Nemliher, J., Kurvits, T., Kallaste, T., Puura, I. 2004. Apatite varieties in the shell of the Cambrian lingulate brachiopod Obolus apollinis Eichwald. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Geology 53, 4, 246-256. DOI:10.3176/geol.2004.4.02

Popov, L. E., Holmer, L. E. 2003. Understanding linguloid brachiopods: Obolus and Ungula as examples. Carnets de Géologie 6, 1-13.

Holmer, L. E., Biernat, G. 2002. Lingulate brachiopods from Lower Ordovician (Tremadoc) chalcedonites, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47, 1, 141-156.

Holmer, L. E., Popov, L. E. 2000. Class Lingulata. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, part H Brachiopoda, pp. 30-146.

Puura, I. 1996. Lingulate brachiopods and biostratigraphy of the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary beds in Baltoscandia. Doctoral Thesis, pp. 1-214. Uppsala University.

Popov L., Nõlvak J., Holmer, L. 1994. Late Ordovician lingulate brachiopods from Estonia. Palaeontology 37, 3, 627-650.

Popov, L., Holmer, L. E. 1994. Cambrian-Ordovician lingulate brachiopods from Scandinavia, Kazakhstan, and South Ural Mountains. Fossils and Strata 35, 1-156. DOI:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1994.tb01571.x

Holmer, L. E., Popov, L. E. 1994. Revision of the type species of Acrotreta and related Lingulate brachiopods. Journal of Paleontology 68, 3, 433-450. DOI:10.1017/S002233600002583X

Holmer, H., Popov, L. E. 1990. The acrotretacean brachiopod Ceratreta tanneri (Metzger) from the Upper Cambrian of Baltoscandia. GFF 112, 3, 249-263. DOI:10.1080/11035899009454772

Holmer, L. E. 1989. Middle Ordovician phosphatic inarticulate brachiopods from Västergötland and Dalarna, Sweden. Fossils and Strata 26, 1-172.

Popov, L. E., Khazanovich, K. K. 1989. Lingulata (inarticulate brachiopods with phosphate-calcium shell). The Key sections and stratigraphy of the phosphate bearing Obolus beds of the North-East of the Russian platform, pp. 96-136. Nauka.

Popov, L., Nõlvak, J. 1987. Revision of the morphology and systematic position of the genus Acanthambonia (Brachiopoda, Inarticulata). Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia Toimetised. Geoloogia / Известия Академии наук Эстонской ССР. Геология 36, 1, 14-19. DOI:10.3176/geol.1987.1.03

Bednarczyk, W. 1986. Inarticulate brachiopods from the Lower Ordovician in northern Poland. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 56, 3-4, 409 - 418.

Popov, L. E., Pushkin, V. I. 1986. Ordovikskie bezzamkovye brahiopody ûžnoj Pribaltiki [Ордовикские беззамковые брахиоподы южной Прибалтики]. Novyie i maloizvestnye vidy iskopaemykh životnyh i rastenij Belorussii, pp. 11-22. Nauka i Tekhnika.

Kaljo, D., Borovko, N., Heinsalu, H., Khazanovich, K., Mens, K., Popov, L., Sergejeva, S., Sobolevskaya, R., Viira, V. 1986. The Cambrian-Ordovician boundary in the Baltic-Ladoga clint area (North Estonia and Leningrad Region, USSR). Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia Toimetised. Geoloogia / Известия Академии наук Эстонской ССР. Геология 35, 3, 97-108. DOI:10.3176/geol.1986.3.01

Khazanovich, K. K., Popov, L. E., Melnikova, L. M. 1984. Bezzamkovye brahiopody, ostrakody (bradoriidy) i hiolitel'minty iz sablinskoj svity Leningradskoj oblasti. Paleontologicheski Zhurnal 1984, 4, 33-47.

Biernat, G. 1984. Silurian inarticulate brachiopods from Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 29, 1-2, 91-103.

Gravitis, V. A. 1981. Brahiopody [Брахиоподы]. Devon i karbon Pribaltiki, pp. 443-463. Zinatne.

Popov, L. 1981. The first record of microscopoic inarticulate brachiopods of the family Acrotretidae of the Silurian of Estonia. Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia Toimetised. Geoloogia / Известия Академии наук Эстонской ССР. Геология 30, 1, 34-41. DOI:10.3176/geol.1981.1.06

Biernat, G. 1973. Ordovician Inarticulate Brachiopods from Poland and Estonia. Palaeontologia Polonica 28, 1-116.

Jankauskas, T., Posti, E. 1973. Micropaleontological characteristic of the stratotype sections of the Estonian Lower Cambrian. Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia Toimetised. Keemia, Geoloogia / Известия Академии наук Эстонской ССР. Химия. Геология 22, 2, 143-148. DOI:10.3176/chem.geol.1973.2.08

Gorjansky, V. J. 1969. Bezzamkovye brahiopody kembrijskih i ordovikskih otloženij severo-zapada Russkoj platformy. pp. 1-176. Nedra.

Öpik, A. 1925. Beitrag zur Stratigraphie und Fauna des estnischen Unter-Kambriums (Eophyton-Sandstein). Tartu Ülikooli Geoloogia Instituudi Toimetused 3, 1-19. Geoloogia-Instituut.

Bekker, H. 1921. The Kuckers stage of the Ordovician Rocks in NE Estonia. Acta et Commentationes Universitatis Tartuensis II, 1, 1-92.

Hoyningen-Huene, F. 1899. Die silurischen Craniaden der Ostseeländer mit Ausschluss Gotlands. Verhandlungen der Russisch-Kaiserlichen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft zu St. Petersburg 36, 2, 181-359.

Eichwald, E. 1860. Lethaea Rossica ou Paléontologie de la Russie. Premier volume. Ancienne Période en deux sections. pp. XIX+1–1657. E. Schweizerbart. DOI:10.5962/bhl.title.52391

Eichwald, E. 1854. Die Grauwackenschichten von Liv- und Estland. Bulletin de la Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou 27, 1, 1-111.

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List of species

1. Acanthambonia delicata Holmer, 1989 | Ordovician

2. Acanthambonia ildjernensis Hansen, 2008 | Ordovician

3. Acanthambonia portranensis Wright, 1963

4. Acrothele coriacea Linnarsson, 1876 | Lower Cambrian (old nomenclature)→Upper Cambrian (old nomenclature)

5. Acrothele granulata Linnarsson, 1876

6. Acrotreta conula Walcott, 1902 | Upper Cambrian (old nomenclature)

7. Acrotreta nobilis Holmer et Popov, 1994

8. Acrotreta subconica Kutorga, 1848 | Hunneberg Stage→Volkhov Stage

9. Acrotreta tallinnensis Holmer et Popov, 1994 | Saka Member

10. Alichovia ramispinosa Gorjansky, 1969 | Idavere Substage

11. Angulotreta postapicalis Palmer, 1954 | Upper Cambrian (old nomenclature)