Lingulella
Searched as Lingulella cf. westergaardi. The Paleobiology Database treats Lingulella as the accepted name.
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.
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 most 9.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 516.2 Mya and 506.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Lingulella 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
1 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
1 formation
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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.
Lingulella and its relatives
CambrianWhere Lingulella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
2,072 taxa- Micromitra29 sites
- Hyolithes27 sites
- Trilobita27 sites
- Obolus24 sites
- Hazelia23 sites
- Acrotreta21 sites
- Diraphora21 sites
- Ehmaniella burgessensis20 sites
- Haplophrentis carinatus20 sites
- Liangshanella20 sites
- Pentagnostus praecurrens20 sites
- Selkirkia columbia20 sites
- Wiwaxia corrugata20 sites
- Burgessia19 sites
- Marrella splendens19 sites
- Scenella amii19 sites
- Canadaspis perfecta18 sites
- Laggania18 sites
- Morania18 sites
- Nisusia18 sites
- Waptia fieldensis18 sites
- Yohoia18 sites
- Naraoia compacta17 sites
- Ottoia prolifica17 sites
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Lingulella
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- 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 and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Lingulella”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itObolidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Salter 1866)