Linguella sp.
No picture of Linguella sp. was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Linguella sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At least 34 million years on record.
The record covers at least 516.2 Mya to 481.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 475.3 Mya.
9 occurrences of Linguella sp. on record, most of them in the Cambrian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
9 occurrences- Cambrian83%
- Ordovician17%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
6 formations
- Weymouth Formation4
- Brigus Formation1
- Puerto Blanco Formation · Fallotaspis Group1
- Browns Pond Formation1
- Deadwood Formation1
- Ishpa Formation · Takoshkin Group1
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The named rock units Linguella sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Linguella sp. and its relatives
CambrianWhere Linguella sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Eccentrotheca kanesia5 sites
- Rhombocorniculum cancellatum5 sites
- Halkieria4 sites
- Linguella viridis4 sites
- Sunnaginia imbricata4 sites
- Torellella laevigata4 sites
- Chancelloria3 sites
- Coleoloides typicalis3 sites
- Hertzina2 sites
- Microdictyon2 sites
- Pelagiella2 sites
- Acanthomicmacca (Acanthomicmacca) walcotti1 site
- Acrocephallina sp.1 site
- Ajacicyathus1 site
- Ajacicyathus nevadensis1 site
- Alisina1 site
- Allatheca degeeri1 site
- Archaeocyathus (Spirocyathus) yavorskii1 site
- Asperconella troyensis1 site
- Aulacoparia1 site
- Aulacoparia (Aulacoparina)1 site
- Bilacunaspis sp.1 site
- Bogutschanophycus1 site
- Botsfordia caelata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Linguella sp., and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
6 references- Lower Cambrian of eastern Massachusetts: stratigraphy and small shelly fossils4
- Ordovician Sedimentary Basin and Paleobiotas of the Gorny Altai1
- Oldest shelly fossils from the Taconic Allochthon and late Early Cambrian sea-levels in eastern Laurentia1
- Upper Placentian-Branchian series of mainland Nova Scotia (middle-upper Lower Cambrian) faunas, paleoenvironments, and stratigraphic revision1
- Upper Proterozoic and Cambrian rocks in the Caborca Region, Sonora, Mexico - physical stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, paleocurrent studies, and regional relations1
- Lower Ordovician (Arenig) faunas from the Williston Basin, Montana and North Dakota1
Each of the 9 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Linguella sp. was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Linguella sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Linguella sp. was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.