Pseudolimea reticulata
Kurt Meiers · CC0 · 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
- PseudolimeaPBDB
- 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 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
141 occurrences of Pseudolimea reticulata on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
141 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
17 formations
- Prairie Bluff Formation26
- Providence Formation25
- Chiwapa Formation15
- Peedee Formation9
- Corsicana Marl Formation8
- Coffee Sand Formation · Selma Group7
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The named rock units Pseudolimea reticulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pseudolimea reticulata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pseudolimea reticulata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
828 taxa- Anomia argentaria86 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata69 sites
- Veniella conradi69 sites
- Crenella serica65 sites
- Cyprimeria64 sites
- Crassatella vadosa62 sites
- Syncyclonema61 sites
- Cymbophora59 sites
- Serpula58 sites
- Nuculana56 sites
- Linearis54 sites
- Granocardium53 sites
- Camptonectes bubonis52 sites
- Cubitostrea tecticosta48 sites
- Idonearca capax48 sites
- Bryozoa46 sites
- Turritella trilira45 sites
- Liopistha protexta43 sites
- Glycymeris41 sites
- Turritella41 sites
- Vertebrata41 sites
- Aphrodina40 sites
- Cliona40 sites
- Lima acutilineata40 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 139 sites for Pseudolimea reticulata, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
15 references- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain45
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf41
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages17
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain8
- Bivalves and Gastropods from the Middle Campanian Anacacho Limestone, south central Texas6
- Stratigraphy of the outcropping post-Magothy Upper Cretaceous formations in Southern New Jersey an Northern Delmarva peninsula, Delaware and Maryland4
- Gastropods from the coffee Sand (Upper Cretaceous) of Mississippi4
- Changes in Late Cretaceous - early Tertiary benthic marine assemblages: analyses from the North American coastal plain shallow-shelf3
- Paleoecology of the Aguja formation, Brewster County, Texas3
- The Black Creek-Peedee formational contact (Upper Cretaceous) in the Cape Fear river region of North Carolina3
- The Cretaceous formations3
- Local invertebrate assemblages in the Upper Cretaceous Marshallton Formation along the valley of Oldmans Creek in southern New Jersey1
Each of the 141 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. 3 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 content1
Picture of Pseudolimea reticulata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Kurt Meiers
- Licence
- CC0
- 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 itPseudolimea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Forbes 1845)