Lima (Plagiostoma) subcardiiformis
Not Lima (Plagiostoma) subcardiiformis. This is Lima subcardiiformis Greppin, 1867, a relative — both are Limidae.
Fischer, Jean-Claude · CC BY 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
- PlagiostomaPBDB
- 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 most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 174.7 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
44 occurrences of Lima (Plagiostoma) subcardiiformis on record, most of them in the Middle 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
44 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
9 formations
- Dhruma Formation · Shaqra Group18
- Calcaires marneux inferieurs Formation6
- White Limestone Formation · Great Oolite Group4
- Tuwaiq Mt.Lst. Formation · Shaqra Group3
- Calcaires marno-crayeux superieurs Formation3
- Calcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs Formation3
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The named rock units Lima (Plagiostoma) subcardiiformis 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.
Lima (Plagiostoma) subcardiiformis and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Lima (Plagiostoma) subcardiiformis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
382 taxa- Homomya gibbosa30 sites
- Fimbria lajoyei28 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea26 sites
- Parallelodon hirsonensis25 sites
- Trigonia pullus24 sites
- Pholadomya lirata23 sites
- Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana21 sites
- Camptonectes laminatus20 sites
- Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus20 sites
- Ceratomya concentrica18 sites
- Gryphaea costellata18 sites
- Inoperna18 sites
- Protocardia18 sites
- Ceratomyopsis arabica17 sites
- Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei17 sites
- Thracia17 sites
- Arcomytilus16 sites
- Ceratomya excentrica16 sites
- Chlamys16 sites
- Chlamys curvivarians16 sites
- Entolium (Entolium) corneolum16 sites
- Lithophaga fabella16 sites
- Lopha costata16 sites
- Mactromya16 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Lima (Plagiostoma) subcardiiformis, 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
8 references- Le Jurassique D`Arabie Centrale21
- Geologie, Paleontologie et Paleoecologie du Bathonien au sud-ouest du Massif Ardennais15
- The Hampen Marly and White Limestones Formations: Florida-type carbonate lagoons in the Jurassic of central England3
- Bivalvia from the Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) of the Mecsek Mts, Hungary1
- Ecology and adaptive strategies of corals in unfavourable environments: Examples from the Middle Jurassic of the Kachchh Basin, western India1
- Les Crocodiliens fossiles du Jurassique moyen et superieur de Bourgogne. [The fossil crocodilians from the Middle and Upper Jurassic layers of Burgundy]1
- La fauna Giurassica di Karkar (Afghanistan) [The Jurassic fauna of Karkar (Afghanistan)]1
- The Stratigraphical Palaeontology, ammonites excluded, of the Stowell Park borehole1
Each of the 44 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 Lima subcardiiformis Greppin, 1867
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Fischer, Jean-Claude
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- 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 itPlagiostoma through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Greppin 1867