Limopsis

Limopsis is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Limopsidae.

Limopsis

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
LimopsidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Limopsidae

Time the record covers

At least 184 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 703 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 24 of 703 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 18 of 703 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 703 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 703 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 139 of 703 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 31 of 703 occurrencesEocene — about 100 of 703 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 47 of 703 occurrencesMiocene — about 249 of 703 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 66 of 703 occurrencesPleistocene — about 24 of 703 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–192 Mya — about 3 occurrences192–185 Mya — about 18 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 2 occurrences178–171 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences171–164 Mya — about 17 occurrences164–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences123–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–110 Mya — about 1 occurrence110–103 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 5 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 11 occurrences89–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–75 Mya — about 6 occurrences75–68 Mya — about 70 occurrences68–62 Mya — about 66 occurrences62–55 Mya — about 10 occurrences55–48 Mya — about 5 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 19 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 74 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 12 occurrences27–21 Mya — about 60 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 122 occurrences14–6.8 Mya — about 94 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 101 occurrences184.2 Mya11.7 ka205 Mya0 Mya

703 occurrences of Limopsis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

703 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

168 formations

Cook Mountain — 31.75°N, 92.97°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 31.61°N, 93.40°WCook Mountain — 31.93°N, 92.64°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.52°N, 92.64°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 92.66°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 93.65°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.26°N, 93.82°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°Eopoka — 51.15°N, 21.72°Eopoka — 51.05°N, 21.80°EGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.77°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.77°N, 85.15°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 85.72°WDry Creek Sands — 34.70°S, 138.62°EDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.85°S, 138.60°EDry Creek Sands — 34.88°S, 138.49°EDry Creek Sands — 34.89°S, 138.56°EDry Creek Sands — 34.95°S, 138.57°EMaastrichtian chalk — 56.97°N, 9.68°EIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.22°EIhungia — 40.30°S, 176.62°EIhungia — 40.30°S, 176.28°ENaseby Greensand — 44.98°S, 170.28°ENaseby Greensand — 45.02°S, 170.15°EKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 29.21°N, 99.79°WKincaid — 30.23°N, 97.52°WKincaid — 29.39°N, 99.06°WKincaid — 29.39°N, 99.03°WKarai — 11.21°N, 78.98°EBelmont — 12.50°N, 61.44°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.92°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.68°WLadd — 33.74°N, 117.64°WBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°ELellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EKalchreuth — 49.55°N, 11.13°ESan Julian — 46.87°S, 66.95°WSan Julian — 49.30°S, 67.72°WSan Julian — 47.13°S, 66.05°WSan Julian — 47.08°S, 66.70°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WOtekaike Limestone — 44.84°S, 170.52°EOtekaike Limestone — 45.79°S, 170.51°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.63°N, 4.92°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.87°N, 4.06°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.60°N, 4.96°EBanc à verrins — 48.85°N, 1.94°ELisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°W

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The named rock units Limopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 144 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 262 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Limopsis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Limopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,900 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 395 sites for Limopsis, 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

177 references

Each of the 703 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. 165 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 Limopsis

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Limopsis was found in Sketchfab.

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

The description on this site

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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. (Sassi 1827)