Lima (Limatula) elliptica

Lima elliptica Jeffreys, 1864, a relative of Lima (Limatula) elliptica — not Lima (Limatula) elliptica itself

Not Lima (Limatula) elliptica. This is Lima elliptica Jeffreys, 1864, a relative — both are Limidae.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LimatulaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Limatula
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Limatula
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Limatula
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 5.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 152.21 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 26 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 26 of 26 occurrencesLate Jurassic162–161 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences161–161 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences160–160 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 1 occurrence159–158 Mya — about 4 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 4 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157.9 Mya152.21 Mya162 Mya148.7 Mya

26 occurrences of Lima (Limatula) elliptica on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

26 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

11 formations

Calcaire a oolithes ferrugineuses — 49.30°N, 0.07°WCoral Rag de Trouville — 49.30°N, 0.07°WCoral Rag de Trouville — 49.37°N, 0.08°EOsmington Oolite — 50.60°N, 2.45°WOsmington Oolite — 50.63°N, 2.37°WOsmington Oolite — 50.80°N, 2.28°WArgiles a Lopha gregarea — 49.30°N, 0.07°WTrigonia clavellata — 50.80°N, 2.28°WCoral Rag — 53.98°N, 1.53°WHambleton Oolite — 54.25°N, 1.07°WCalcaire de Hennequeville — 49.37°N, 0.08°ECoralline Oolite — 54.21°N, 0.29°WMalton Oolite — 54.21°N, 0.29°WDaua Limestone — 3.45°N, 40.17°E

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The named rock units Lima (Limatula) elliptica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lima (Limatula) elliptica and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Lima (Limatula) elliptica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

125 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Lima (Limatula) elliptica, 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

2 references

Each of the 26 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Lima elliptica Jeffreys, 1864

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLimatula through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Whiteaves 1861)