Lingulella bedding plane Cambrian Wales

[TqB]

I've been sorting out my old collection and came across this, a slab of Lingulella davisii (M'Coy) from North Wales, near Porthmadog.

It's from the Ffestiniog Formation, near the top of the Cambrian.

I'm sure there's lots of it around but there don't seem to be many pics when I search, apart from in this paper:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1306865.pdf

[doushantuo]

sutton et al(JOP,2000)

http://www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.1666/0022-3360%282000%29074<0426%3ATTSOLC>2.0.CO%3B2

and:

biernat:

https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app13/app13-159.pdf

Petters./holmer

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227783897_First_record_of_the_brachiopod_Lingulella_waptaensis_with_pedicle_from_the_Middle_Cambrian_Burgess_Shale

nice one by C.E(gondwana shell beds).:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248616174_Signification_des_niveaux_a_lingulides_a_la_limite_superieure_du_Gres_Armoricain_Ordovicien_Arenig_Sud-Ouest_de_l'Europe

Edited August 20, 2016 by doushantuo

[TqB]

sutton et al(JOP,2000)

http://www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.1666/0022-3360%282000%29074<0426%3ATTSOLC>2.0.CO%3B2

and:

biernat:

https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app13/app13-159.pdf

Petters./holmer

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227783897_First_record_of_the_brachiopod_Lingulella_waptaensis_with_pedicle_from_the_Middle_Cambrian_Burgess_Shale

Thanks! The first link there (Sutton et al) doesn't work for me but the paper is the same as the one in my post.

[piranha]

Here is Sutton et al. 2000:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Ridgehiker]

Wow. That's a great slab. I've never see Lingula brachs in that type of group preservation. Also appreciate the posting of the publications. Interesting read.

We have a lot of Cambrian rock but, despite this, brachiopods are somewhat sparse in comparison to trilobites, sponges etc. I've never found more than one Lingula on a rock surface. Another inarticulate brach, the Orbiculoid group, are found more often in our Cambian but still not common.

[Fossildude19]

Very cool slab, Tarquin!

Regards,

[TqB]

Thanks for the comments and link, Tim, Canadawest and piranha!

[Wrangellian]

[Tidgy's Dad]

Gosh, that's an amazing piece. 

I have a single specimen, but like some other folk, I have never seen so many together on a bedding plane. 

 

[TqB]

@Tidgy's Dad Thanks, Adam. It's nice when old posts get revived.

 I've been paying more attention to brachiopods lately, especially my local Carboniferous ones. I must ask you about some of them. 

Edited October 6, 2023 by TqB

[minnbuckeye]

That is a spectacular plate!! My Lingulella are always found as individuals. Thanks @Tidgy's Dad for resurrecting a topic I had missed.

[Tidgy's Dad]

9 hours ago, TqB said:

 

I've been paying more attention to brachiopods lately, especially my local Carboniferous ones. I must ask you about some of them. 

Please do.

But it's often pretty difficult, a lot of those productids and spiriferids are rather similar. 

[TqB]

16 minutes ago, Tidgy&#x27;s Dad said:

Please do.

But it's often pretty difficult, a lot of those productids and spiriferids are rather similar. 

Thank you. I thought so.