Lima lima

Lima lima, or the spiny fileclam, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Limidae.

Lima lima

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
LimaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lima
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lima
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lima
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 28 of 53 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 53 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 23 of 53 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

53 occurrences of Lima lima on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

53 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

14 formations

Abbas — 16.75°N, 42.00°EAbbas — 16.75°N, 41.73°EAbbas — 16.90°N, 41.67°EGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WLindos Acropolis — 35.92°N, 27.83°EKoronia — 35.08°N, 33.17°ELychow — 50.69°N, 22.03°ENiechobrz — 49.92°N, 21.87°EWeglinek — 50.72°N, 21.95°EWeglin — 50.72°N, 21.95°EBundera Calcarenite — 21.89°S, 114.02°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°E"Riukiu Limestone" — 22.62°N, 120.30°EMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WPanchina — 43.57°N, 10.35°ERhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°E

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The named rock units Lima lima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lima lima and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lima lima and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

959 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Lima lima, 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

28 references

Each of the 53 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. 16 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 content2

Picture of Lima lima

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Occidozyga lima · zmb:Herp:91011

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itLima through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)