Lingula BruguiƩre 1797 (lamp shell)

Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae

Parent taxon: Lingulidae according to A. Williams et al. 2000

See also Kiessling 2003, Peng and Shi 2008, Raymond 1911 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Apsilingula, Barroisella, Credolingula, Dignomia, Eolingularia, Glottidiinae, Langella, Lingularia, Lingulinae, Lunoglossa, Semilingula, Sinolingularia, Trentingula

Subtaxa: Lingula acutangula Lingula adamsi Lingula albapinensis Lingula allingi Lingula anatina Lingula aoraki Lingula arctica Lingula audebardii Lingula beani Lingula beanii Lingula borealica Lingula bottnica Lingula bravardi Lingula carbonaria Lingula clintoni Lingula complanata Lingula craneae Lingula crassa Lingula credneri Lingula cretacea Lingula davidsoni Lingula deitersensis Lingula delia Lingula demissa Lingula densa Lingula derbyi Lingula desiderata Lingula divulgata Lingula dregeri Lingula elliptica Lingula elliptica Lingula foliaceusa Lingula forbesi Lingula freboldi Lingula fuyuanensis Lingula gorbyi Lingula halli Lingula hyperborea Lingula indianensis Lingula ingens Lingula jaspidea Lingula kedonensis Lingula kolymaensis Lingula lamellata Lingula leana Lingula ligea Lingula liurjakhensis Lingula lonensis Lingula longoviciensis Lingula louisianensis Lingula marginata Lingula marginia Lingula meeki Lingula membranacea Lingula metensis Lingula minima Lingula nanimensis Lingula nikitini Lingula nitida Lingula oblata Lingula olenekensis Lingula ovalis Lingula ovata Lingula parva Lingula percorrugata Lingula pyramidata Lingula reevei Lingula reevii Lingula rostrum Lingula sacculus Lingula selwyni Lingula semen Lingula spatulata Lingula squamiformis Lingula sterlini Lingula sturti Lingula subcircularis Lingula subelliptica Lingula subovalis Lingula subspatulata Lingula subtenuissima Lingula suessi Lingula sulcatiferea Lingula tenuis Lingula translucida Lingula truncata Lingula tumida Lingula tumidula Lingula varsoviensis Lingula whitei Lingula xinlinensis Lingulipora zhexiensis

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of India (1 collection)

• Miocene of Austria (2), Germany (3), Hungary (1), Italy (2), the Netherlands (1), Poland (5), Romania (1), Slovakia (1), Ukraine (1)

• Eocene of Antarctica (3), New Zealand (2), the United Kingdom (2)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of New Zealand (1)

• Cretaceous of Cameroon (1), Canada (7: Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan), Chile (1), Colombia (1), Germany (1), Greenland (2), Kazakhstan (1), Poland (8), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (11), United States (42: Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, North Carolina, Texas, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (1)

• Jurassic of Antarctica (1), Canada (1: Yukon), Chile (4), Denmark (2), France (10), Greenland (24), India (1), Portugal (4), the Russian Federation (6), Spain (7), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), Ukraine (19), the United Kingdom (16), United States (2: California)

• Triassic of Australia (1), Austria (4), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (37), Germany (6), Hungary (4), Iraq (1), Israel (3), Italy (2), Mexico (1), New Zealand (13), the Russian Federation (17), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), United States (4: Idaho, Montana), Vietnam (1)

• Leonard of United States (3: Montana, Utah, Wyoming)

• Permian of Australia (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Canada (1: Nunavut), China (13), Lithuania (2), the Russian Federation (35), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (27: Alaska, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming)

• Virgilian of United States (14: Illinois, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas)

• Desmoinesian of United States (22: Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma)

• Westphalian of the United Kingdom (5)

• Namurian of Spain (1)

• Chesterian of United States (2: Arkansas, Wyoming)

• Osagean of United States (1: Utah)

• Carboniferous of Australia (1), Canada (1: Yukon), China (1), the Czech Republic (2), Germany (3), Ireland (2), the United Kingdom (91), United States (36: Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa/Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas)

• Mississippian of the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: California)

• Devonian of Antarctica (3), Argentina (1), Australia (2), Belarus (1), Brazil (34), Canada (11: Alberta, Northern Territories, Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Nunavut, Ontario), China (7), the Czech Republic (5), France (1), Ghana (1), Mauritania (1), New Zealand (1), Norway (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (3), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (5), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (139: Alaska, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin), Uruguay (1), Vietnam (2)

• Silurian to Devonian of the Russian Federation (1)

• Silurian of Australia (3), Brazil (1), Canada (39: Nova Scotia, Ontario), China (13), the Czech Republic (5), Greenland (1), Lithuania (1), Mongolia (1), Norway (1), Paraguay (2), Poland (2), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (45), United States (46: Alaska, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, New York, Virginia, West Virginia)

• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Australia (6), Bolivia (5), Canada (18: Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (11), the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (4), the United Kingdom (4), United States (31: Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia), Venezuela (1)

• Llandeilo of China (1)

• Arenig of Argentina (1), China (8)

• Cambrian of China (1)

Total: 1065 collections including 1110 occurrences

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