Lingulepis

Lingulepis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ObolinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Obolidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Obolidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Obolidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 51 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 449.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 20 of 34 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 14 of 34 occurrencesOrdovician541–537 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences537–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences531–528 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences528–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–522 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences522–519 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences519–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516–513 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences513–510 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences510–507 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences507–503 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences503–500 Mya — about 1 occurrence500–497 Mya — about 1 occurrence497–494 Mya — about 4 occurrences494–491 Mya — about 3 occurrences491–488 Mya — about 4 occurrences488–485 Mya — about 4 occurrences485–482 Mya — about 3 occurrences482–479 Mya — about 3 occurrences479–476 Mya — about 2 occurrences476–472 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences472–469 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences469–466 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences460–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–454 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences509.7 Mya458.2 Mya541 Mya448 Mya

34 occurrences of Lingulepis on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

22 formations

Warrior — 40.82°N, 77.93°WFranconia — 44.52°N, 89.57°WFranconia — 45.40°N, 92.66°WDresbach — 44.52°N, 89.57°WDeadwood — 44.42°N, 103.71°WDeadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WHoyt Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WHoyt Limestone — 43.08°N, 73.86°WCass Fjord — 73.53°N, 24.77°WMons — 50.63°N, 116.05°WMons — 50.78°N, 116.05°WSt. Albans Shale — 44.48°N, 73.21°WSkeels Corner Slate — 44.78°N, 73.11°WLower Road River — 68.17°N, 137.00°WTongzi — 28.00°N, 107.00°EDawan — 27.00°N, 101.00°ELa Cienega — 19.00°S, 65.00°WYeli — 37.00°N, 114.00°ECouches de la Cluse de L'Orb — 43.00°N, 3.00°EBorrachon — 41.00°N, 1.00°WDere — 41.00°N, 1.00°WKeeseville — 43.08°N, 73.86°WDouposi — 27.55°N, 106.23°EAntiklinalbugt — 72.82°N, 25.19°WCarrara — 35.88°N, 116.16°WSurvey Peak — 52.03°N, 116.84°W

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

Lingulepis and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Lingulepis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

231 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Lingulepis, 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

20 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. 8 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 Lingulepis

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lingulepis 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 itObolinae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1863)