The living Lingula anatina genome, staged transcriptomes and shell proteome document a sampled phosphate-shell biomineralization toolkit; they do not demonstrate morphological stasis or the lineage's origin time.
claim:taxon:lingula-anatinaLingula anatina
Luo et al. document living gravid Lingula anatina adults collected in July and August at Kasari Bay with exact coordinates, so 0 Ma denotes that present-day collection only and does not date lineage origin, fossil duration or morphological stasis. This navigation entry is not a phylogeny or a complete taxon dossier.
Represented range0–Present Ma
Content packagemolluscs-brachiopods
PBDBtxn:150949
Evidence boundary
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Claim ledger
Luo et al. document living gravid Lingula anatina adults collected in July and August at Kasari Bay with exact coordinates, so 0 Ma denotes that present-day collection only and does not date lineage origin, fossil duration or morphological stasis.
claim:taxon:lingula-anatina:source-bounded-range-rc50Known limits
- A missing branch or fossil occurrence does not imply biological absence. Internal nodes are not calibrated divergence estimates.
References
- The Lingula genome provides insights into brachiopod evolution and the origin of phosphate biomineralizationLuo, Y.-J.; Takeuchi, T.; Koyanagi, R.; Yamada, L.; Kanda, M.; Khalturina, M.; Fujie, M.; Yamasaki, S.; Endo, K.; Satoh, N. et al. · 2015 · DOI 10.1038/ncomms9301
- Open Tree of Life web servicesOpenTreeOfLife Project
- The Paleobiology Database application programming interfacePeters, S.E.; McClennen, M. · 2016 · DOI 10.1017/pab.2015.39
- Denormalized occurrence and taxon tables of the Paleobiology DatabaseThe Paleobiology Database Community; Kocsis, Á.T. · 2026 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21620933