Lingula beani

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LingulaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lingulidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Lingulidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lingulidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 184.2 Mya and 170.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Lingula beani on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Lingula beani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lingula beani and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Lingula beani and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Amberleya2 sites
- Arcomya2 sites
- Gresslya2 sites
- Plagiostoma2 sites
- Tancredia2 sites
- Astarte1 site
- Avicula muensteri1 site
- Camptonectes laminatus1 site
- Corbicellopsis1 site
- Cucullaea1 site
- Entolium demissum1 site
- Eocallista1 site
- Gervillia1 site
- Glyphea rosenkrantzi1 site
- Goniomya1 site
- Homoeorhynchia1 site
- Leioceras1 site
- Lima1 site
- Lobothyris1 site
- Lopha1 site
- Mactromya1 site
- Modiolus1 site
- Monsardithyris trilineata1 site
- Oxytoma inequivalvis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lingula beani, 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
2 references- The Lower Jurassic Rocks of East Greenland Part II The Mesozoic Sediments of the Kap Hope Area Southern Liverpool Land2
- Notes on Dogger horizons in north-east Yorkshire1
Each of the 3 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 content1

Picture of Lingula beani
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lingula beani was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLingula through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Phillips 1829