Fimbriinae

Fimbriinae is a subfamily of saltwater clams. marine bivalve molluscs in the family Lucinidae.

Fimbriinae

George Brettingham Sowerby II · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LucinidaePBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 251 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Permian — about 1 of 575 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 5 of 575 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 86 of 575 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 144 of 575 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 19 of 575 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 125 of 575 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 26 of 575 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 55 of 575 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 43 of 575 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 25 of 575 occurrencesEocene — about 38 of 575 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 575 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 575 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 575 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 575 occurrences259–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences251–242 Mya — about 64 occurrences242–233 Mya — about 72 occurrences233–225 Mya — about 32 occurrences225–216 Mya — about 21 occurrences216–207 Mya — about 23 occurrences207–199 Mya — about 26 occurrences199–190 Mya — about 7 occurrences190–181 Mya — about 5 occurrences181–173 Mya — about 2 occurrences173–164 Mya — about 97 occurrences164–156 Mya — about 37 occurrences156–147 Mya — about 16 occurrences147–138 Mya — about 2 occurrences138–130 Mya — about 10 occurrences130–121 Mya — about 10 occurrences121–112 Mya — about 21 occurrences112–104 Mya — about 10 occurrences104–95 Mya — about 14 occurrences95–86 Mya — about 3 occurrences86–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–69 Mya — about 13 occurrences69–60 Mya — about 29 occurrences60–52 Mya — about 11 occurrences52–43 Mya — about 5 occurrences43–35 Mya — about 27 occurrences35–26 Mya — about 4 occurrences26–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences251.902 Mya129 ka259 Mya0 Mya

575 occurrences of Fimbriinae on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

575 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

148 formations

Qingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EQingyan — 26.92°N, 108.73°EQingyan — 26.35°N, 106.70°ECassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.54°N, 11.62°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.60°N, 12.26°EDhruma — 22.62°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 22.53°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 21.88°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.53°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.92°N, 44.00°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.70°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.78°N, 45.25°EDhruma — 25.97°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.20°N, 44.83°EDhruma — 26.33°N, 44.83°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.63°N, 4.92°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.68°N, 4.61°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.60°N, 4.96°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.64°N, 4.73°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.85°N, 4.16°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.78°N, 4.40°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.65°N, 4.64°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.60°N, 4.80°ETataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.63°N, 4.92°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.70°N, 4.42°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.60°N, 4.96°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.72°N, 4.50°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.64°N, 4.73°EGabbs — 38.00°N, 118.00°WGabbs — 38.50°N, 118.08°WNayband — 32.50°N, 57.35°ENayband — 32.38°N, 57.41°ENayband — 33.00°N, 57.00°ENayband — 32.38°N, 57.50°ENayband — 32.35°N, 57.45°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.85°N, 4.31°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.23°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.68°N, 4.61°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.76°N, 4.45°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.86°N, 4.14°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.60°N, 4.96°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.72°N, 4.50°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.85°N, 4.16°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.78°N, 4.40°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.65°N, 4.64°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.60°N, 4.80°ETrochitenkalk — 51.63°N, 9.03°ETrochitenkalk — 50.75°N, 8.50°ETrochitenkalk — 51.66°N, 9.06°ETrochitenkalk — 49.28°N, 8.70°EDajialian — 37.49°N, 99.38°EAtherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.58°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WGorno — 45.87°N, 9.87°EWhite Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.17°WWhite Limestone — 51.80°N, 1.88°WInglis Limestone — 29.23°N, 82.70°WInglis Limestone — 29.02°N, 82.62°WInglis Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WPeschanka — 43.25°N, 131.72°EPeschanka — 43.30°N, 132.05°EPeschanka — 43.45°N, 131.77°ERaha — 28.65°N, 33.24°ERaibl — 47.79°N, 13.44°ERaibl — 47.43°N, 11.19°ERaibl — 47.36°N, 11.48°ERaibl — 47.33°N, 11.46°ERaibl — 47.35°N, 11.32°ERaibl — 47.41°N, 11.12°ERaibl — 47.71°N, 12.68°ERaibl — 47.64°N, 11.80°EEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°EPoudingue de Ciply — 50.42°N, 3.95°E

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The named rock units Fimbriinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 124 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 154 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fimbriinae and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Fimbriinae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

3,364 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 440 sites for Fimbriinae, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

191 references

Each of the 575 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 179 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Fimbriinae

Credit
George Brettingham Sowerby II
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nicol 1950)