Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus

Rachel Crane · 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
- Serripes (Serripes)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cardiidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Cardiidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.
78 occurrences of Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
78 occurrences- Oligocene1%
- Miocene11%
- Pliocene13%
- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene26%
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
20 formations
- Kap Kobenhavn Formation5
- Gubik Formation4
- Presumpscot Formation4
- Uspenskaya Formation2
- Champlain Clay Formation2
- Champlain Clay Formation2
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The named rock units Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 44 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
456 taxa- Hiatella arctica21 sites
- Mytilus edulis17 sites
- Mya (Mya) truncata15 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) calcarea14 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) praetenuis11 sites
- Arctica islandica9 sites
- Astarte9 sites
- Natica9 sites
- Abra alba8 sites
- Astarte montagui8 sites
- Buccinum undatum8 sites
- Gastropoda8 sites
- Mya (Arenomya) arenaria8 sites
- Aequipecten opercularis7 sites
- Bivalvia7 sites
- Calyptraea chinensis7 sites
- Cardium7 sites
- Cerastoderma edule7 sites
- Macoma7 sites
- Mya7 sites
- Spisula7 sites
- Timoclea ovata7 sites
- Yoldia7 sites
- Clinocardium (Ciliatocardium) ciliatum6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus, 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
23 references- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America14
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions8
- Unpublished census data for the Mollusca of the Tjornes sequence, Iceland6
- Marine Molluscan Assemblages in the Early Pleistocene of Sidestrand, Bramerton and the Royal Society Borehole at Ludham, Norfolk6
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.5
- Molluscan palaeontology of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Kap Kobenhavn Formation, North Greenland5
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of Sakhalin and Kurile Islands4
- Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of Late Quaternary marine molluscan assemblages, Canadian Arctic achipelago4
- Cenozoic Megafossils of Northern Alaska4
- Isotope palaeotemperatures from the Tjornes Beds in Iceland; evidence of Pliocene cooling3
- Quaternary marine stratigraphy and geochronology in central West Greenland3
- Wood, 18503
Each of the 78 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. 11 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 Serripes (Serripes) groenlandicus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Rachel Crane
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
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- Specimen
- Serripes groenlandicus · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:12721
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSerripes (Serripes) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mohr 1786)