Lingula carbonaria

Lingula carbonaria

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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 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 67 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 50 of 67 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 17 of 67 occurrencesPermian361–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences346–343 Mya — about 2 occurrences343–339 Mya — about 2 occurrences339–336 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences336–332 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences332–328 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences328–325 Mya — about 2 occurrences325–321 Mya — about 2 occurrences321–317 Mya — about 3 occurrences317–314 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences314–310 Mya — about 8 occurrences310–307 Mya — about 10 occurrences307–303 Mya — about 9 occurrences303–299 Mya — about 9 occurrences299–296 Mya — about 4 occurrences296–292 Mya — about 2 occurrences285–281 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences281–277 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences277–274 Mya — about 2 occurrences274–270 Mya — about 4 occurrences270–267 Mya — about 4 occurrences267–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences263–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–256 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences256–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339.9 Mya259.857 Mya361 Mya252 Mya

67 occurrences of Lingula carbonaria on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

67 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

29 formations

Wewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WPhosphoria — 42.97°N, 106.78°WPhosphoria — 39.60°N, 110.82°WPhosphoria — 44.00°N, 114.00°WPhosphoria — 42.32°N, 111.24°WPhosphoria — 42.26°N, 111.01°WPhosphoria — 41.06°N, 111.54°WPhosphoria — 42.09°N, 110.93°WRed Tanks — 35.75°N, 107.12°WGraham — 32.73°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.26°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.17°N, 98.16°WGrenola Limestone — 39.25°N, 96.57°WGrenola Limestone — 39.17°N, 96.60°WCabaniss — 37.48°N, 94.61°WCabaniss — 38.64°N, 90.42°WCabaniss — 38.33°N, 94.02°WLoray — 39.65°N, 115.32°WMyslejovice — 49.27°N, 17.00°EFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WGlenshaw — 39.98°N, 81.73°WGlenshaw — 40.43°N, 79.30°WPottsville — 38.90°N, 82.72°WPottsville — 39.98°N, 82.03°WPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WSaginaw — 42.75°N, 84.77°WGrenola — 39.37°N, 95.06°WForaker Limestome — 39.25°N, 96.57°WRed Eagle Limestone — 38.13°N, 96.33°WHeath — 46.79°N, 108.87°WAmsden — 43.62°N, 109.50°WGreta Grit — 54.00°N, 2.83°WCockhill Marine Band — 54.00°N, 2.00°WJanesville Shale — 39.85°N, 95.67°WForaker Limestone — 39.85°N, 95.67°WWild Cow — 34.75°N, 106.25°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°W

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The named rock units Lingula carbonaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lingula carbonaria and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Lingula carbonaria and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

755 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Lingula carbonaria, 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

27 references

Each of the 67 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. 15 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 Lingula carbonaria

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

No 3D scan of Lingula carbonaria 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shumard and Swallow 1858