Pseudolimea
Kurt Meiers · CC0 · 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
- LimidaePBDB
- 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 181 million years on record.
The record covers at least 247 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 59.24 Mya.
827 occurrences of Pseudolimea on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
827 occurrences- Early Triassicunder 1%
- Middle Triassicunder 1%
- Late Triassic6%
- Early Jurassic27%
- Middle Jurassic13%
- Late Jurassic5%
- Early Cretaceous6%
- Late Cretaceous41%
- Paleoceneunder 1%
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
134 formations
- Chari Formation48
- Roca Formation · Malargüe Group48
- Prairie Bluff Formation29
- Providence Formation26
- Turmiel Fm Formation20
- Jagüel Formation · Malargüe Group19
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The named rock units Pseudolimea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 110 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 256 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pseudolimea and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pseudolimea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
1,309 taxa- Anomia argentaria93 sites
- Nuculana79 sites
- Crenella serica78 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata76 sites
- Serpula70 sites
- Syncyclonema68 sites
- Veniella conradi66 sites
- Granocardium65 sites
- Pycnodonte vesicularis65 sites
- Cymbophora64 sites
- Camptonectes bubonis62 sites
- Cyprimeria62 sites
- Crassatella vadosa61 sites
- Cubitostrea tecticosta53 sites
- Linearis53 sites
- Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia)51 sites
- Idonearca capax50 sites
- Vetericardiella50 sites
- Bryozoa47 sites
- Cliona46 sites
- Gryphaeostrea vomer45 sites
- Hamulus onyx45 sites
- Lima acutilineata43 sites
- Liopistha protexta43 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 624 sites for Pseudolimea, 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
151 references- Molluscs at the K/Pg boundary in Argentina: Extinction and recovery patterns. unpublished Ph.D. thesis78
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages71
- Unpublished data from Kachchh50
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain49
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf41
- Palokologie und zeitliche Verbreitung benthischer Faunengemeinschaften im Unterjura von Chile34
- Temperature-related body size change of marine benthic macroinvertebrates across the Early Toarcian Anoxic Event26
- Cretaceous stratigraphy of Raukumara Peninsula24
- Palökologie benthischer Faunen aus dem Unter-Toarc SW-Europas23
- Early Jurassic Bivalvia of western Canada. Part I. Subclasses Palaeotaxodonta, Pteriomorpha, and Isofilibranchia19
- Macrofaunal response to the end Triassic mass extinction in the West-Tethyan Kössen Basin, Austria17
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain16
Each of the 827 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. 139 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 Pseudolimea
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Kurt Meiers
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pseudolimea 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.
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What may have been alongside itLimidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Douglas and Arkell 1932)