Loripinus

Stichting Observation International · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- PegophyseminaePBDB
- 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 35 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 774 ka.
20 occurrences of Loripinus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
20 occurrences- Eocene10%
- Miocene75%
- Pliocene10%
- Pleistocene5%
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
8 formations
- Ihungia Formation7
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Canoa Formation1
- Werder Formation1
- Ecija Formation1
- Falun de Sainte-Avit Formation1
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The named rock units Loripinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Loripinus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Loripinus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
814 taxa- Nassarius5 sites
- Turritella5 sites
- Aequipecten4 sites
- Amalda obsoleta4 sites
- Callista4 sites
- Chlamys4 sites
- Clavatula4 sites
- Gouldia (Gouldia) minima4 sites
- Hiatella arctica4 sites
- Mitrella4 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii4 sites
- Terebra4 sites
- Timoclea ovata4 sites
- Varicorbula gibba4 sites
- Abra (Abra)3 sites
- Acteon (Acteon)3 sites
- Acteon arnumensis3 sites
- Alvania3 sites
- Anachis (Costoanachis)3 sites
- Astarte (Astarte) radiata3 sites
- Asthenotoma3 sites
- Babylonella3 sites
- Barbatia3 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Loripinus, and this reads all of them. 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
12 references- The Geology of the Dannevirke Subdivision7
- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 2 Bivalvia, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda, Bryozoa, Annelida, Brachiopoda2
- Paleontologie de Madagascar. XIV. Fossiles du Miocene Marine2
- Seagrass-Associated Molluscan and Fish Communities from the Early Pleistocene of the Island of Rhodes (Greece)1
- Biodiversity structure of an exceptionally preserved Aquitanian bivalve assemblage (Meilhan, SW France)1
- Die molluskenfauna (Hermmorium, Untermiozän) aus der Kiesgrube kirnke bei Werder (Nordwest-Niedersachsen)1
- Lower to Middle Miocene Mollusc assemblages from the Torino Hills (NW Italy): Synthesis of new data and chronostratigraphical arrangement1
- Prospeccion paleontologica superficial en las margenes del Rio Guadaira, en el Termino municipal de Alcala de Guadaira (Sevilla)1
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
- A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador1
- Notes on the Neogene faunas of Cyprus, II.1
Each of the 20 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 content1

Picture of Loripinus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Stichting Observation International
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Loripinus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPegophyseminae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Monterosato 1883)