Lingulella cuneata

Lingulella cuneata (Conrad, 1839), a relative of Lingulella cuneata — not Lingulella cuneata itself

Not Lingulella cuneata. This is Lingulella cuneata (Conrad, 1839), a relative — both are Lingulidae.

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 4.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 438.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 0 of 2 occurrencesSilurian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesSilurian443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443.6 Mya438.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Lingulella cuneata 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

2 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

2 formations

Mosalem — 42.27°N, 90.42°WPower Glen — 43.11°N, 79.28°W

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

Lingulella cuneata and its relatives

Silurian

Where Lingulella cuneata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

15 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Lingulella cuneata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 2 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 Lingulella cuneata (Conrad, 1839)

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lingulella cuneata 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 itLingulella through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1839)