Lingula oblata

Lingula oblata

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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 17 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 0 of 5 occurrencesSilurian — about 5 of 5 occurrencesSilurian444–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 1 occurrence440–439 Mya — about 1 occurrence439–438 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443.6 Mya426.2 Mya

5 occurrences of Lingula oblata on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

5 occurrences

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

3 formations

Bear Creek — 43.29°N, 76.74°WBear Creek — 43.31°N, 76.58°WPitinga — 1.13°S, 57.75°WThorold — 43.31°N, 76.58°W

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The named rock units Lingula oblata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Lingula oblata and its relatives

Silurian

Where Lingula oblata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

39 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Lingula oblata, 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

Each of the 5 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 oblata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Lingula oblata 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 itLingula through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1843