Pseudolingula iowensis

Pseudolingula iowensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudolingulaPBDB
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 most 7.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 29 of 29 occurrencesOrdovician458–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences457.8 Mya449.1 Mya

29 occurrences of Pseudolingula iowensis 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

29 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

17 formations

Dunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°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°WScales Shale — 44.98°N, 93.27°WScales Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WIon — 42.00°N, 90.50°WSt. Peter Sandstone — 44.98°N, 93.27°WGlenwood — 44.98°N, 93.27°WPlatteville — 44.98°N, 93.27°WDecorah Shale — 44.98°N, 93.27°WPecatonica — 42.00°N, 90.50°WMifflin — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.50°WNachusa — 42.00°N, 90.50°WQuimbys Mill — 42.00°N, 90.50°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGuttenberg — 42.00°N, 90.50°W

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

Pseudolingula iowensis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Pseudolingula iowensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

107 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Pseudolingula iowensis, 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

2 references

Each of the 29 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 Pseudolingula iowensis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pseudolingula iowensis 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 itPseudolingula through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Owen 1844)