Limea

Limea is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Limidae.

Limea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LimidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 240 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 129 ka.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 143 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 143 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 143 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 77 of 143 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 143 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 6 of 143 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 143 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 143 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 143 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 143 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 143 occurrencesMiocene — about 19 of 143 occurrencesPliocene — about 6 of 143 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 143 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences244–235 Mya — about 3 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences202–193 Mya — about 2 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 45 occurrences185–176 Mya — about 30 occurrences176–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–160 Mya — about 4 occurrences160–151 Mya — about 4 occurrences151–143 Mya — about 1 occurrence143–134 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences134–126 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences101–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 5 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 13 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences241.464 Mya774 ka252 Mya0 Mya

143 occurrences of Limea on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

143 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

40 formations

Whitby Mudstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WCleveland Ironstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WBayirkoy — 40.30°N, 29.99°ECape Stewart Beds — 70.44°N, 22.64°WCape Stewart Beds — 70.46°N, 22.71°WCape Stewart Beds — 70.47°N, 22.64°WCape Stewart — 70.45°N, 22.65°WCape Stewart — 70.44°N, 22.65°WCape Stewart — 70.46°N, 22.33°WLower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WAgardhfjellet — 78.10°N, 13.91°EPebble Point — 38.70°S, 143.18°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°EBerada — 51.10°N, 5.80°EMuschelkalk — 38.42°N, 0.65°WLemede — 40.11°N, 8.77°WIsland Sandstone — 42.03°S, 171.35°Emarly chalk — 51.28°N, 21.90°ECalcaire de Caen — 48.97°N, 0.13°WMarnes de Jamoigne — 49.72°N, 5.22°EKuta — 5.58°S, 144.07°EFelsörs — 46.93°N, 17.83°EDolomite — 39.87°N, 1.48°WWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°EDiest — 51.19°N, 4.46°ERed Bluff Tuff — 43.83°S, 176.53°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°W

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The named rock units Limea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Limea and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Limea and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

2,144 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 125 sites for Limea, and this reads all 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

53 references

Each of the 143 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. 41 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 content2

Picture of Limea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Limea bronniana · USNM:IZ:USNM 458309

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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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What may have been alongside itLimidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bronn 1831