Lingula spatulata

Lingula spatulata

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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 least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 351.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 25 of 27 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 27 occurrencesCarboniferous389–387 Mya — about 2 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 5 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 5 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 5 occurrences384–382 Mya — about 5 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 2 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 2 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 1 occurrence360–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–357 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences354–352 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences382.31 Mya358.86 Mya388.7 Mya351.2 Mya

27 occurrences of Lingula spatulata on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

27 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

6 formations

Geneseo Shale — 42.63°N, 76.70°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 76.03°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.46°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WNew Albany Shale — 38.67°N, 85.67°WLudlowville — 42.72°N, 76.67°WTully — 42.53°N, 76.59°WHay River — 61.00°N, 114.26°W

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The named rock units Lingula spatulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lingula spatulata and its relatives

Devonian

Where Lingula spatulata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

65 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Lingula spatulata, 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

7 references

Each of the 27 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 spatulata

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vanuxem 1842