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Linguliformea (Linguliforms)

      Linguliformea is a subphylum of former inarticulate brachiopods. These were the earliest of brachiopods, ranging from the Cambrian into the Holocene. They rapidly diversified during the Cambrian into the Ordovician, but most families went extinct by the end of the Devonian.The articulation in these brachiopods is lacking. These brachiopods have adductor and oblique muscles, but no diductor muscles. The anus is located at the side of the body. The pedicle is a hollow extension of the ventral body wall. Posterior body wall separates dorsal and ventral mantles. The shells are usually made up of apatite (calcium phosphate), however rare cases have calcite or aragonite shells.

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Lingulella JB216
Lingulella p3709
LingulellaAD, Mergl a Šlehoferová (1990) MM282
LingulellaMergl (1988a), Pl. II, fig. 7 MM349
Lingulella JB183
Lingulella sufiMergl a Šlehoferová (1990), Pl. VI, fig. 5; Fatka et al. (1992), Pl. IV, fig. 1 MM259
Lingulella sufiMergl a Šlehoferová (1990), Pl. VI, fig. 7 MM261
Lingulella sufi MM423
Lingulella sufi RŠ101
Lingulella sufi MM421
Lingulella sufi MM425
Lingulella sufi MM269
Lingulella wirthi (Barrande, 1879)Budil et al. (2016) MM550
Lingulella wirthi (Barrande, 1879)Budil et al. (2016) MM547
Lingulella wirthi (Barrande, 1879)Budil et al. (2016) MM549
Lingulella wirthi (Barrande, 1879)Budil et al. (2016) MM548
Linguleoides carens p5831
Linguliformea Williams & al., 1996AD ? Kříž a kol. (1986) JK7500
Linguliformea Williams & al., 1996AD ? Kříž a kol. (1986) JK7504
Linguliformea Williams & al., 1996AD ? Kříž a kol. (1986) JK7502

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