Microloripes

Stichting Schepsel Schelp · 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
- LucinidaePBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 8.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
13 occurrences of Microloripes on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
13 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
5 formations
- Lychow Formation1
- Weglinek Formation1
- Weglin Formation1
- Werder Formation1
- Falun de Sainte-Avit Formation1
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The named rock units Microloripes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Microloripes and its relatives
MioceneWhere Microloripes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
786 taxa- Chama gryphoides10 sites
- Acar8 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata8 sites
- Ctena decussata8 sites
- Cubitostrea digitalina8 sites
- Aequipecten7 sites
- Coralliophaga7 sites
- Gouldia (Gouldia) minima7 sites
- Hiatella arctica7 sites
- Lithophaga lithophaga7 sites
- Lucina columbella7 sites
- Modiolus7 sites
- Striarca7 sites
- Talochlamys multistriata7 sites
- Varicorbula gibba7 sites
- Cardita6 sites
- Cardites6 sites
- Ervilia6 sites
- Glans (Centrocardita)6 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymeris)6 sites
- Neopycnodonte navicularis6 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) nucleus6 sites
- Plagiocardium (Papillicardium) papillosum6 sites
- Spondylus gaederopus6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Microloripes, 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
9 references- Bivalve Molluscs from the Badenian of Northwestern Bulgaria3
- Middle Miocene bivalve faunas from the carbonate deposits of Poland (Central Paratethys)3
- Paleobiology from Museum collections: comparing historical and novel data on Upper Miocene molluscs of the Livorno Hills1
- Biodiversity structure of an exceptionally preserved Aquitanian bivalve assemblage (Meilhan, SW France)1
- Die molluskenfauna (Hermmorium, Untermiozän) aus der Kiesgrube kirnke bei Werder (Nordwest-Niedersachsen)1
- The bivalve fauna from the Ortenburg Marine Sands in the well-core “Straß” (Early Miocene; SE Germany) — taxonomy, stratigraphy, paleoecology, and paleogeography1
- Coral microbialite environment in a Middle Miocene reef of Hungary1
- Paleoecology and lithogenesis of the Middle Miocene (Badenian) algal-vermetid reefs from the Roztocze Hills, south-eastern Poland1
- Lithofazielle Entwicklung und Molluskenfauna des oberen Badeniens (Miozän M4d) in dem Gebiet Bratislava-Devinska Nova Ves [Lithofacies and mollusc fauna of the Upper Badenian in the Bratislava-Devinska Nova Ves area]1
Each of the 13 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 Microloripes
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Stichting Schepsel Schelp
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Microloripes was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLucinidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cossmann 1901)