Lingula ovalis

Lingula ovalis

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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 most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 154.8 Mya and 143.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 6 of 6 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155.3 Mya142.6 Mya

6 occurrences of Lingula ovalis on record, most of them in the Late 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

2 formations

Kimmeridge-clay — 51.32°N, 2.23°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.74°N, 1.31°W

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The named rock units Lingula ovalis 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 ovalis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Lingula ovalis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

20 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Lingula ovalis, 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

3 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. 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 ovalis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lingula ovalis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1813