Lingula metensis

Lingula metensis

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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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 184.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 182.9 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 6 of 6 occurrencesEarly Jurassic202–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences199–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 2 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 2 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences199.5 Mya184.2 Mya201.9 Mya182.4 Mya

6 occurrences of Lingula metensis on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

6 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

1 formation

Calcaire a gryphees — 48.00°N, 6.00°E

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The named rock units Lingula metensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lingula metensis and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Lingula metensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1 taxon

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Lingula metensis, 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 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Lingula metensis

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Lingula metensis 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 itLingula through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Terquem 1851