Limopsis minima

Limopsis minima

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LimopsisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Limopsis
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Limopsis
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Limopsis
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Limopsidae

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.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 17 of 17 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 2 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 2 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175.2 Mya161 Mya

17 occurrences of Limopsis minima 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

17 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

6 formations

Calcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.63°N, 4.92°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.87°N, 4.06°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.60°N, 4.96°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.72°N, 4.50°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.68°N, 4.61°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.76°N, 4.45°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.86°N, 4.14°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.72°N, 4.50°EStonesfield Slate — 51.80°N, 1.88°WCalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ETaynton Stone — 51.80°N, 1.88°W

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The named rock units Limopsis minima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Limopsis minima and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Limopsis minima and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

141 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Limopsis minima, 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 17 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 Limopsis minima

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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 itLimopsis through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1824