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Lingula nitida
Taxonomy
Lingula nitida was named by Meek and Hayden (1861). It is not a trace fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
L. adamsoni, L. bechei, L. circularis, L. comes, L. emaciata, L. fleenori, L. fragila, L. gracilis, L. huainera, L. keideli, L. keuperea, L. knuissima, L. krugeri, L. lamella, L. lewisi, L. lindstroemi, L. longovicensis, L. media, L. melie, L. milwaukeensis, L. milwaukiensis, L. muongthensis, L. mytilloides, L. nigricans, L. oliverai, L. orientalis, L. osagensis, L. otheri, L. paracletus, L. philipi, L. plagemanni, L. pseudoparallela, L. punctata, L. rotunda, L. rugosa, L. scalprum, L. semina, L. subspatula, L. subtrigona, L. symondsi, L. unguis, L. vicina, L. waikatoensis, L. zenkeri, L. zeta
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1861 | Lingula nitida Meek and Hayden p. 443 |
| 1897 | Lingula nitida Schuchert p. 251 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Lingula nitida Meek and Hayden 1861
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: g = genus, f = family, o = order, c = class, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Hendy 2009, Bambach et al. 2007, Nesnidal et al. 2013 | |||||
Age range: base of the Turonian to the top of the Late/Upper Campanian or 93.90000 to 72.20000 Ma
Collections (6 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Turonian | USA (Wyoming) | Lingula nitida (87754) | |
| Middle Coniacian | USA (Wyoming) | Lingula nitida (87773) | |
| Santonian | USA (Wyoming) | Lingula nitida (87776) | |
| Early/Lower Campanian | Canada (Alberta) | Lingula nitida (82646) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian | USA (Montana) | Lingula nitida (213074) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian | Canada (Saskatchewan) | Lingula nitida (87441) |