Pseudolingula

Pseudolingula

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudolingulidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Linguloidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Linguloidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Linguloidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 421.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 210 occurrencesOrdovician — about 179 of 210 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 31 of 210 occurrencesSilurian488–485 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences479–476 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 1 occurrence470–467 Mya — about 8 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 15 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 12 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 15 occurrences461–458 Mya — about 32 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 10 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 13 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 21 occurrences452–449 Mya — about 35 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 5 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 5 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 5 occurrences443–440 Mya — about 3 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 13 occurrences425–422 Mya — about 12 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477.1 Mya425 Mya488 Mya420 Mya

210 occurrences of Pseudolingula on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

210 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

88 formations

Meadowtown Beds — 52.67°N, 2.00°WRorrington Beds — 52.67°N, 2.00°WOverton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WWeston Beds — 52.67°N, 2.00°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WObukhovo — 59.87°N, 31.43°EObukhovo — 60.05°N, 32.59°EEllis Bay — 49.82°N, 64.35°WEllis Bay — 49.42°N, 62.25°WEllis Bay — 49.81°N, 64.43°WUpper Bringewood — 52.00°N, 3.00°WWaynesville — 39.35°N, 85.10°WWaynesville — 39.58°N, 84.95°WVerulam — 44.60°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 78.67°WPaekna — 58.96°N, 22.31°EPaekna — 59.01°N, 26.08°EPaekna — 58.74°N, 24.08°EPaekna — 58.86°N, 24.08°EBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WHope Shales — 52.67°N, 2.00°WKope — 39.08°N, 84.45°WUzunbulak — 44.04°N, 75.12°ESillaoru — 59.44°N, 27.22°ESillaoru — 59.87°N, 31.43°ESillaoru — 60.05°N, 32.59°ETongzi — 28.00°N, 107.00°ELower Leintwardine — 52.00°N, 2.00°WPlatteville — 44.98°N, 93.27°WDecorah Shale — 44.98°N, 93.27°WDecorah Shale — 44.95°N, 93.10°WProsser Limestone — 44.98°N, 93.27°WWise Lake — 44.98°N, 93.27°WWise Lake — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDubuque — 44.98°N, 93.27°WDubuque — 42.00°N, 90.50°W

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The named rock units Pseudolingula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 64 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudolingula and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Pseudolingula and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,234 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 193 sites for Pseudolingula, 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

52 references

Each of the 210 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. 40 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 Pseudolingula

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pseudolingula 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. (Mickwitz 1909)