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
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
Type: Lapworthella nigra
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder