Serripes
Serripes is a genus of molluscs in the family Cardiidae.

Wood (scan by Tom Meijer, 26-6-2007) · Public Domain · 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
- CardiidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cardiidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Cardiidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.
105 occurrences of Serripes on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
105 occurrences- Oligocene3%
- Miocene24%
- Pliocene11%
- Pleistocene44%
- Holocene19%
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
32 formations
- Kap Kobenhavn Formation5
- Gubik Formation4
- Presumpscot Formation4
- Il'inskaya Formation3
- Uspenskaya Formation2
- Etolonskaya Formation2
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The named rock units Serripes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 52 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Serripes and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Serripes and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
618 taxa- Hiatella arctica30 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) calcarea21 sites
- Mya (Mya) truncata21 sites
- Mytilus edulis19 sites
- Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum12 sites
- Macoma12 sites
- Astarte montagui11 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) praetenuis11 sites
- Natica11 sites
- Cyclocardia10 sites
- Arctica islandica9 sites
- Astarte9 sites
- Astarte borealis9 sites
- Buccinum undatum9 sites
- Cryptonatica affinis9 sites
- Abra alba8 sites
- Gastropoda8 sites
- Mya (Arenomya) arenaria8 sites
- Panopea8 sites
- Spisula8 sites
- Thracia8 sites
- Yoldia8 sites
- Aequipecten opercularis7 sites
- Astarte elliptica7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Serripes, 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
33 references- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America14
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.10
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions8
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of Sakhalin and Kurile Islands8
- Unpublished census data for the Mollusca of the Tjornes sequence, Iceland6
- Marine Molluscan Assemblages in the Early Pleistocene of Sidestrand, Bramerton and the Royal Society Borehole at Ludham, Norfolk6
- Contributions to the Quaternary geology of northern West Greenland especially the raised marine deposits6
- Molluscan palaeontology of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Kap Kobenhavn Formation, North Greenland5
- Cenozoic Megafossils of Northern Alaska5
- Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of Late Quaternary marine molluscan assemblages, Canadian Arctic achipelago4
- Isotope palaeotemperatures from the Tjornes Beds in Iceland; evidence of Pliocene cooling3
- Quaternary marine stratigraphy and geochronology in central West Greenland3
Each of the 105 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. 21 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 Serripes
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Wood (scan by Tom Meijer, 26-6-2007)
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Serripes 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Serripes”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCardiidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1841)