Limopsis

Searched as Limopsis (Pectunculina) anomala cancellata. The Paleobiology Database treats Limopsis as the accepted name.

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 1.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.8–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–9.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.1–8.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.8–8.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.4–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.8–4.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.1–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–3.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.246 Mya5.333 Mya12.1 Mya2.1 Mya

3 occurrences of Limopsis on record. 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

3 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

1 formation

Koronia — 35.05°N, 33.05°E

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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. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

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

2 references

Each of the 3 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. 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 Limopsis

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

Laser scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Limopsis striatopunctatus · ypm:ip:YPM IP 616034

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 itLimopsidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sassi 1827)