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Lingulida

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Description

Lingulida is an order of brachiopods.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingulida, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 4.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1440	https://www.gbif.org/species/1440
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	26324	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=26324

Rank

order

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Brachiopoda : Lingulata : Lingulida

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
-	Lophophorata
phylum	Brachiopoda	Cuvier 1805
subphylum	Linguliformea	Williams et al. 1996
class	Lingulata	Gorjansky and Popov 1985
order	Lingulida	Waagen 1885

Scientific Name

Lingulida

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Lingulida	order	belongs to Inarticulata	stated without evidence	Mitchell, 1977
Lingulida	order	belongs to Inarticulata	stated with evidence	Holmer, 1986
Lingulida	order	belongs to Lingulata	stated with evidence	Holmer, 1989
Lingulida	order	belongs to Articulata	stated without evidence	Bengtson, 1992
Lingulida	order	belongs to Lingulata	stated with evidence	Holmer, 1993
Lingulida	order	belongs to Lingulata	stated without evidence	Holmer et al., 1997
Lingulida	order	belongs to Lingulata	stated with evidence	Bruton and Harper, 2000
Lingulida	order	belongs to Lingulata	stated without evidence	Popov, 2000
Lingulida	order	belongs to Lingulata	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Lingulida	order	belongs to Lingulata	stated without evidence	Emig and Herrera, 2006
Lingulida	order	belongs to Lingulata	stated with evidence	Hansen and Holmer, 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

576

Extant Size (PBDB)

40 (6.9%)

First Recorded Appearance

541 - 516 Ma
Cambrian

Motility

stationary, attached

Vision

blind (based on Lingulata)

Diet

suspension feeder

Ecospace Comments

ECOSPACE CODE: 361. LIFE HISTORY: Shallow infaunal, facultatively motile, suspension feeding according to Bambach et al (2007).

Taphonomy

phosphatic

Primary Reference (PBDB)

W. Waagen. 1885. Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 5. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 1(4):729-770

Common Name(s)

舌殻

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingulida

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Craniidina ✝ suborder	listed (PBDB)
Acrotheloidea ✝ superfamily	listed (PBDB)		241	541 Ma Cambrian	458 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Discinoidea superfamily	listed (PBDB)		1,341	520 Ma Cambrian	0 Ma Extant
Linguloidea superfamily	listed (PBDB)		3,656	541 Ma Cambrian	0 Ma Extant
Trimerellacea ✝ superfamily	listed (PBDB)
Acrothelidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		136	541 Ma Cambrian	458 Ma Late/Upper Ordovician
Andobolidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aulonotretidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	472 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician	472 Ma Early/Lower Ordovician
Botsfordiidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		105	530 Ma Cambrian	505 Ma Cambrian
Dianabellidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Discinidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		130	485 Ma Cambrian	0 Ma Extant
Disciniidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1,044	520 Ma Cambrian	0 Ma Extant
Dysoristidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	501 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Elkaniidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		81	501 Ma Cambrian	408 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Eoobolidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		46	520 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Holmerellidae family	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Kyrshabaktellidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		46	520 Ma Cambrian	505 Ma Cambrian
Lingulasmatidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		19	468 Ma Middle Ordovician	443 Ma Silurian
Lingulellotretidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		97	530 Ma Cambrian	470 Ma Middle Ordovician
Lingulidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1,563	513 Ma Cambrian	0 Ma Extant
Obolidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1,278	541 Ma Cambrian	303 Ma Carboniferous
Paterulidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		132	505 Ma Cambrian	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Pseudolingulidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		188	485 Ma Cambrian	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Trematidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		167	470 Ma Middle Ordovician	359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Zhanatellidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		100	513 Ma Cambrian	466 Ma Middle Ordovician
Lingulipora ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	393 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	372 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Oxlosia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Shouxianella ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1885	Lingulida Waagen
1977	Lingulida Mitchell
1986	Lingulida Holmer
1989	Lingulida Holmer
1992	Lingulida Bengtson p. 1030
1993	Lingulida Holmer
1993	Lingulida Puura and Holmer
1997	Lingulida Holmer et al. p. 579
2000	Lingulida Bruton and Harper
2000	Lingulida Popov

Year	Name and Author
2000	Lingulida Sutton et al.
2000	Lingulida Williams et al. p. 32
2002	Lingulida Sepkoski, Jr.
2006	Lingulida Emig and Herrera p. 231
2008	Lingulida Landing et al. p. 899
2008	Lingulida Peng and Shi p. 156
2009	Lingulida Holmer and Bengtson p. 257
2011	Lingulida Hansen and Holmer
2017	Lingulida Holmer et al.
2017	Lingulida Skovsted et al.

References

Waagen W. Productus Limestone Fossils, Part IV, fas. 5, Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 1 4, 729-770

Mitchell W. I. (1977) The Ordovician Brachiopoda from Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone, The Palaeontographical Society Monographs 130 545, 1-138

Holmer L. E. (1986) Inarticulate brachiopods around the Middle-Upper Ordovician boundary in Västergötland, Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar 108 2, 97-126 doi:10.1080/11035898609452633

Holmer L. E. (1989) Middle Ordovician phosphatic inarticulate brachiopods from Västergötland and Dalarna, Sweden, Fossils and Strata 26, 1-172

Bengtson S. (1992) Proterozoic and earliest Cambrian skeletal metazoans, The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study, 1017-1034

Holmer L. E. (1993) The Lower Ordovician brachiopod genus Lamanskya and the Family Elkaniidae, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 84, 151-160

Puura I., Holmer L. E. (1993) Lingulate brachiopods from the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary beds in Sweden, Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 115 3, 215-237 doi:10.1080/11035899309452754

Holmer L. E., Popov L. E., et al (1997) Early Cambrian Lingulellotreta (Lingulata, Brachiopoda) from south Kazakhstan (Malyi Karatau Range) and south China (eastern Yunnan), Journal of Paleontology 71 4, 577-584

Bruton D. L., Harper D. A. T. (2000) A mid-Cambrian shelly fauna from Ritland, western Norway and its palaeogeographical implications, Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 47, 29-51

Popov L. E. (2000) Late Ordovician linguliformean microbrachiopods from north-central Kazakhstan, Alcheringa 24, 257-275

Sutton M. D., Bassett M. G., et al (2000) The type species of Lingulella (Cambrian Brachiopoda), Journal of Paleontology 74 3, 426-438

Williams A., Carlson S. J., et al (2000) Part H Brachiopoda (revised): Volumes 2 & 3, Linguliformea, Craniiformea, Rhynchonelliformea (part)., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, 1-919

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Emig C. C., Herrera Z. (2006) Dignomia munsterii (Brachiopoda, Lingulata) from the Ordovician of Bolivia, with redescription of the genus, Geodiversitas 28 2, 227-237

Landing E., Johnson S. C., et al (2008) Faunas and Cambrian volcanism on the Avalonian marginal platform, southern New Brunswick, Journal of Paleontology 82 5, 884-905

Peng Y., Shi G. R. (2008) New Early Triassic Lingulidae (Brachiopoda) genera and species from South China, Alcheringa 32, 149-170

Holmer L. E., Bengtson P. (2009) The first occurrence of a lingulid brachiopod from the Cretaceous of Sergipe, Brazil, with a restudy of ‘Lingula’ bagualensis Wilckens, 1905 from southern Patagonia, Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 83, 255-266

Hansen J., Holmer L. E. (2011) Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Ordovician brachiopods from northeastern Ny Friesland, Spitsbergen, Zootaxa 3076, 1-122

Holmer L.E., Popov L. E., et al (2017) Unusual pitted Ordovician Brachiopods from the east Baltic: The significance of coarsely pitted ornamentations in Linguliforms, Palaeontology, 1-13

Skovsted C. B., Knight I., et al (2017) Depth related brachiopod faunas from the lower Cambrian Forteau Formation of southern Labrador and western Newfoundland, Canada, Palaeontologia Electronica 20.3 54A, 1-52

Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per phylum - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bitner, M. A. (1996). Brachiopods from the Eocene La Meseta Formation of Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Palaeontologia Polonica. 55, 65-100. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Waagen, W. H. (1885). Salt Range fossils, vol. I, part 4. Productus Limestone fossils, Brachiopoda. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Palaeontologia Indica (series 13). 5: 729–770, pl. 82–86. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Bitner, M. A. (1996). Brachiopods from the Eocene La Meseta Formation of Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Palaeontologia Polonica. 55, 65-100. - via World Register of Marine Species

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