Palaeolima retifera

Palaeolima retifera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeolimaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Limidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Limidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Limidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 318.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 11 of 17 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 17 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrences320–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–315 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 2 occurrences311–308 Mya — about 2 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 2 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 1 occurrence304–302 Mya — about 2 occurrences302–299 Mya — about 2 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences288–285 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences281–278 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences274–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences258–255 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307.4 Mya259.857 Mya320 Mya251 Mya

17 occurrences of Palaeolima retifera on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

17 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

10 formations

Supai — 33.99°N, 110.35°WSupai — 33.93°N, 110.19°WSupai — 33.94°N, 110.11°WCabaniss — 38.02°N, 94.36°WCabaniss — 38.64°N, 90.42°WGlenshaw — 39.98°N, 81.73°WGlenshaw — 40.00°N, 81.81°WCherokee Shale — 37.42°N, 94.77°WMattoon — 39.12°N, 88.57°WSama — 43.30°N, 5.68°WKrebs — 37.83°N, 94.49°WHolder — 33.40°N, 105.87°WRed Tanks — 35.75°N, 107.12°WFour Corners — 37.30°N, 83.20°W

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The named rock units Palaeolima retifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeolima retifera and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Palaeolima retifera and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

414 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Palaeolima retifera, 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

11 references

Each of the 17 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 Palaeolima retifera

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Palaeolima retifera was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Shumard and Swallow 1858)