Loripes (Loripes)

Valentina · CC BY-NC 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
- LoripesPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 6.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 143.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Loripes (Loripes) on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
11 occurrences- Late 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Loripes (Loripes) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Loripes (Loripes) and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Loripes (Loripes) and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Astarte11 sites
- Grammatodon11 sites
- Nanogyra (Palaeogyra) virgula11 sites
- Pinna (Pinna)11 sites
- Mesomiltha pulchra10 sites
- Rollierella10 sites
- Nuculoma9 sites
- Parvamussium9 sites
- Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana8 sites
- Plagiostoma7 sites
- Astarte minima6 sites
- Plicatula6 sites
- Cingentolium (Cingentolium) cingulatum5 sites
- Musculus4 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) nattheimensis3 sites
- Liostrea3 sites
- Myophorella (Myophorella)3 sites
- Opis (Coelopis)3 sites
- Pecten (Plesiopecten)2 sites
- Brachidontes (Arcomytilus)1 site
- Cucullaea1 site
- Eopecten1 site
- Gervillella1 site
- Myoconcha1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Loripes (Loripes), 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
1 referenceEach of the 11 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 Loripes (Loripes)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Valentina
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- 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 itLoripes through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Poli 1791