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Lingula cretacea

Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae

Taxonomy

Lingula cretacea was named by Lundgren (1885).

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
1885	Lingula cretacea Lundgren p. 20 figs. Pl. 1, Fig. 1
1990	Lingula cretacea Johansen and Surlyk p. 834 figs. Pl. 1, Fig. 1-2

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
—	Lophophorata
—	Panbrachiopoda	Carlson and Cohen 2020

Rank	Name	Author
phylum	Brachiopoda	Cuvier 1805
subphylum	Linguliformea	Williams et al. 1996
class	Lingulata	Gorjansky and Popov 1985
order	Lingulida	Waagen 1885
superfamily	Linguloidea	Menke 1828
family	Lingulidae	Gray 1840
genus	Lingula	Bruguiére 1797
species	cretacea	Lundgren 1885

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 cretacea Lundgren 1885

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphatico

Entire body:

yesg

Adult length:

10 to < 100g

Adult width:

10 to < 100g

Environment:

marineuc

Locomotion:

facultatively mobilef

Attached:

yeso

Life habit:

infaunalf

Diet:

suspension feederf

Vision:

blindc

Created:

2009-06-02 13:49:06

Modified:

2009-06-02 15:49:06

Source: g = genus, f = family, o = order, c = class, uc = unranked clade

References: Bambach et al. 2007, Nesnidal et al. 2013, Hendy 2009, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 83.60000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (8 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	United Kingdom	Lingula cretacea (157700)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	United Kingdom (England)	Lingula cretacea (3893 3896)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	United Kingdom	Lingula cretacea (157701 157703 157704 157714 157734)