Anabaia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptocoeliidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Leptocoeliidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Leptocoeliidae
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Leptocoeliidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 440.5 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 393.47 Mya.
27 occurrences of Anabaia on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
27 occurrencesThese 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
8 formations
- Los Espejos Formation10
- La Chilca Formation6
- Lipeon Formation3
- Lampa Formation2
- Bambaya Sandstone Formation · Telimele Group1
- Rinconada Formation1
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The named rock units Anabaia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anabaia and its relatives
SilurianWhere Anabaia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
155 taxa- Clarkeia12 sites
- Amosina9 sites
- Tentaculitida8 sites
- Australina7 sites
- Crinoidea7 sites
- Heterorthella7 sites
- Bellerophontoidea6 sites
- Dalmanites6 sites
- Gastropoda6 sites
- Isorthis (Protocortezorthis)6 sites
- Calymene5 sites
- Coelospira5 sites
- Hyolithida5 sites
- Leptaena argentina5 sites
- Pleurodictyum5 sites
- Trimerus5 sites
- Ancillotoechia4 sites
- Ctenodonta4 sites
- Leptaena4 sites
- Murchisonioidea4 sites
- Nuculites4 sites
- Paciphacops argentinus4 sites
- Palaeoneilo4 sites
- Plectodonta (Plectodonta) minima4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Anabaia, 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
12 references- Lithofacies, taphonomy, and brachiopod assemblages in the Silurian of western Argentina: A review of Malvinokaffric Realm communities8
- Braquiopodos del Silurica temprano malvinocafrico (Formacion La Chilca), Precordillera Argentina4
- Additions to Silurian stratigraphy, lithofacies, biogeography and paleontology of Bolivia and southern Peru4
- Brachiopodes et biostratigraphie de la Formation de Los Espejos, Siluro-Devonien de la Precordillere (NW Argentine)3
- The dalmanitid trilobite Pachimocaspis n. gen. and new brachiopod-based insights into the Silurian-Devonian transition in southern South America1
- The Afro–South American brachiopod Castellaroina Boucot from the Silurian of the Argentine Precordillera: its origin and phylogenetic relationships1
- Early Silurian (Rhuddanian) brachiopods from the Argentine Precordillera and their biogeographic affinities1
- First record of Lower Silurian conodonts from South America: biostratigraphic and palaeobiogeographic implications of Llandovery conodonts in the Precordillera of Argentina1
- Braquiopodos Siluricos de las Formaciones Tambolar y Rinconada en la Precordillera de San Juan, Argentina1
- Revision of Silurian and Devonian strata of Brazil1
- Une faune Malvino-Cafre de Brachiopodes Siluriens du Bassin Bove (Guinee, Ouest de l'Afrique)1
- Silurian of Paraguay1
Each of the 27 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 Anabaia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- 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 itLeptocoeliidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.