Lingulodinium

Lingulodinium is a genus of dinoflagellates belonging to the family Gonyaulacaceae.

Lingulodinium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GonyaulacaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 129 ka.

Eocene — about 4 of 34 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 34 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 16 of 34 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 34 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 34 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence37.71 Mya774 ka49 Mya0 Mya

34 occurrences of Lingulodinium on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

34 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

11 formations

Monte León — 47.09°S, 66.01°WMonte León — 50.24°S, 68.75°WMonte León — 50.13°S, 68.40°WMonte León — 47.08°S, 66.39°WAreniscas de el Limbo — 4.90°N, 73.02°WSan Fernando — 4.90°N, 73.02°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WOosterhout — 51.70°N, 5.73°EPiney Point — 37.60°N, 77.09°WKasterlee — 51.34°N, 4.91°EPuerto Madryn — 42.57°S, 64.27°WBlue Clay — 40.47°N, 17.30°EPozo — 7.33°S, 74.95°WBrejning — 56.87°N, 8.64°E

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The named rock units Lingulodinium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lingulodinium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lingulodinium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

823 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Lingulodinium, 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

15 references

Each of the 34 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. 3 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 content1

Picture of Lingulodinium

Credit
Morseds
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lingulodinium 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.

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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What may have been alongside itGonyaulacaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wall 1967