Lingulella

Lingulella is a genus of phosphatic-shelled brachiopod. It is known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale (Canada) to the Upper Ordovician Bromide Formation in North America. 346 specimens of Lingulella are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.66% of the community.

Lingulella

Jean-Bernard Caron · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ObolidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 96 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 410.62 Mya.

Cambrian — about 185 of 412 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 223 of 412 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 412 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 412 occurrencesDevonian541–537 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences537–532 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences532–528 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences528–524 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences524–519 Mya — about 4 occurrences519–515 Mya — about 11 occurrences515–510 Mya — about 19 occurrences510–506 Mya — about 39 occurrences506–501 Mya — about 27 occurrences501–497 Mya — about 27 occurrences497–492 Mya — about 20 occurrences492–488 Mya — about 28 occurrences488–484 Mya — about 37 occurrences484–479 Mya — about 31 occurrences479–475 Mya — about 23 occurrences475–470 Mya — about 16 occurrences470–466 Mya — about 18 occurrences466–461 Mya — about 16 occurrences461–457 Mya — about 32 occurrences457–452 Mya — about 24 occurrences452–448 Mya — about 22 occurrences448–444 Mya — about 12 occurrences444–439 Mya — about 3 occurrences439–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–417 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences417–413 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences413–408 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences516 Mya419.62 Mya541 Mya408 Mya

412 occurrences of Lingulella on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

412 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

187 formations

Burgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WBurgess Shale — 51.03°N, 115.83°WBurgess Shale — 51.38°N, 116.43°WDeadwood — 43.85°N, 103.36°WDeadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WDeadwood — 47.15°N, 110.22°WDeadwood — 47.98°N, 102.92°WDeadwood — 46.87°N, 103.30°WDeadwood — 46.83°N, 104.15°WSnowy Range — 47.15°N, 110.22°WSnowy Range — 45.87°N, 111.00°WSnowy Range — 46.87°N, 111.00°WSnowy Range — 45.92°N, 111.25°WKeeseville — 44.50°N, 73.48°WKeeseville — 44.05°N, 73.46°WKeeseville — 44.31°N, 73.43°WValcour — 44.71°N, 73.19°WValcour — 44.62°N, 73.42°WDay Point — 44.03°N, 73.42°WDay Point — 44.88°N, 73.34°WDay Point — 44.62°N, 73.42°WDay Point — 44.68°N, 73.32°WHolm Dal — 82.42°N, 39.75°WWirrealpa Limestone — 31.33°S, 138.87°ECwmhesgen — 52.86°N, 3.81°WDuNoir — 43.28°N, 109.83°WWades Lane — 45.08°N, 66.75°WTinu — 17.37°N, 97.17°WMicklewood Beds — 51.65°N, 2.43°WMicklewood Beds — 51.65°N, 2.41°WLangston — 42.19°N, 112.25°WLangston — 42.32°N, 111.45°WWufeng — 29.00°N, 109.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 118.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 119.00°EVerulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WVerulam — 44.43°N, 78.78°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 38.21°N, 84.89°WCampo Pisano — 39.43°N, 8.48°ENotch Peak — 38.75°N, 113.50°WYuanshan — 24.84°N, 102.41°EYuanshan — 24.80°N, 102.58°EPratt Ferry — 33.02°N, 87.08°WSlandrom — 58.38°N, 13.82°ESlandrom — 58.45°N, 14.89°ESlandrom — 58.48°N, 13.10°ESlandrom — 60.92°N, 15.09°EBreadstone Shales — 51.71°N, 2.42°WMons — 50.63°N, 116.05°WMons — 50.78°N, 116.05°W

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The named rock units Lingulella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 163 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lingulella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Lingulella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

2,072 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 379 sites for Lingulella, and this reads 240 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

173 references

Each of the 412 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. 161 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Lingulella

Credit
Jean-Bernard Caron
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Everything alive alongside itObolidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Salter 1866)