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Linga

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	17817	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=17817

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Lucinida : Lucinidae : Linga

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Eubivalvia	Carter 2011
subclass	Autobranchia
infraclass	Heteroconchia
-	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardioni	Ferussac 1822
-	Lucinidia	Gray 1854
order	Lucinida
superfamily	Lucinoidea	Fleming 1828
family	Lucinidae	Fleming 1828
subfamily	Lucininae	Fleming 1828
genus	Linga	de Gregorio 1885

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Linga	subgenus	belongs to Phacoides	stated without evidence	Woodring, 1925
Linga	subgenus	belongs to Lucina	stated without evidence	Vredenburg, 1928
Linga	subgenus	belongs to Phacoides	stated with evidence	Gardner, 1947
Linga	genus	belongs to Lucininae	stated with evidence	Cox et al., 1969
Linga	genus	belongs to Lucinidae	stated without evidence	Abbott, 1974
Linga	genus	belongs to Lucininae	stated with evidence	Vokes, 1980
Linga	genus	belongs to Lucinidae	stated without evidence	Freneix et al., 1988
Linga	genus	belongs to Lucinidae	implied	Lamprell and Whitehead, 1992
Linga	genus	belongs to Veneroida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

6 (33%)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 47.8 Ma
Eocene

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Lucinidae)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

chemosymbiotic (based on Lucinidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Lucinidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Linga (Bellucina) subgenus	listed (PBDB)	21	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Linga (Cavilinga) subgenus	listed (PBDB)	3	47.8 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Linga (Illesca) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)	1	41.3 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Linga (Linga) subgenus	listed (PBDB)	29	37.2 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Linga (Pleurolucina) subgenus	listed (PBDB)	8	13.8 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Linga (Cavilinga) pomilia species	listed (PBDB)	41	56.0 Ma Paleocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Phacoides (Linga) browni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Phacoides (Linga) kovatchevi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Phacoides (Linga) podagrinus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	3	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Phacoides (Linga) tithonis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)	1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1885	Linga de Gregorio
1925	Phacoides (Linga) Woodring p. 118
1928	Lucina (Linga) Vredenburg p. 441
1947	Phacoides (Linga) Gardner pp. 106, 107
1969	Linga Cox et al. p. 496
1974	Linga Abbott p. 457
1980	Linga Vokes p. 101
1988	Linga Freneix et al. p. 417
1992	Linga Lamprell and Whitehead p. 46
2002	Linga Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

Woodring W. P. (1925) Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 1: Pelecypods and Scaphopods, Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies

Vredenburg E. (1928) Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Gastropoda (in part) and Lamellibranchiata, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 50 2, 351-506

Gardner J. R. (1947) The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 142A-H, 1-709

Cox L. R., Newell N. D., et al (1969) Mollusca 6: Bivalvia, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology 1 N, N491-N952

Abbott R. T. (1974) , American Seashells: The marine Mollusca of the Alantic and Pacific coasts of North America, 1-663

Vokes H. E. (1980) Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue, Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Freneix S., Saint Martin J.-P., et al (1988) Bivalves Hétérodontes du Messinien d'Oranie (Algérie occidentale), Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Section C: Sciences de la Terre 9 4, 415-453

Lamprell K., Whitehead T. (1992) , Bivalves of Australia 1

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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