Anadara (Anadara)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnadaraPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Anadara
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Anadara
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Anadara
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 175 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 175 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 82 of 175 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 37 of 175 occurrencesPleistocene — about 41 of 175 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 16 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 6 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 12 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 23 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 15 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 27 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

175 occurrences of Anadara (Anadara) on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

175 occurrences

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

48 formations

Astoria — 44.72°N, 124.06°WAstoria — 46.19°N, 123.83°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.25°WTemblor — 35.50°N, 119.78°WTemblor — 35.42°N, 119.85°WTemblor — 35.47°N, 119.91°WTemblor — 35.40°N, 119.82°WTemblor — 35.38°N, 120.15°WTogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°EUpper Bhuban — 23.72°N, 92.72°EUpper Bhuban — 22.88°N, 92.73°EUpper Bhuban — 23.00°N, 93.00°ECaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WUpper Kalibeng — 7.49°S, 110.00°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.37°S, 111.32°EAbbas — 16.75°N, 42.00°EAbbas — 16.75°N, 41.73°EAbbas — 15.40°N, 42.53°ETalar — 25.33°N, 62.00°ETalar — 25.33°N, 65.50°EVaqueros — 33.54°N, 117.78°WVaqueros — 33.68°N, 117.76°WVaqueros — 33.65°N, 117.81°WTentokuji — 39.75°N, 140.41°EVigo — 13.00°N, 122.00°EKlasaman — 0.88°S, 131.25°ELower Gelingseh — 1.50°N, 116.50°EClallam — 48.20°N, 122.11°WErmanovskaya — 58.50°N, 159.17°EOrmara & Jiwani — 25.25°N, 62.25°EOrmara & Jiwani — 25.42°N, 65.50°EAusinskaya — 47.67°N, 142.01°EAusinskaya — 47.05°N, 142.06°ENyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°ENyalindung — 7.49°S, 110.00°ECabatuan — 10.86°N, 122.50°EAtsunai — 43.08°N, 143.83°EAtsunai — 42.80°N, 143.81°ECilanang — 7.01°S, 107.33°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ELower Menkrawit — 1.50°N, 116.50°ELower Menkrawit — 1.03°N, 118.98°EIshiizawa — 42.77°N, 143.81°EEugene — 44.04°N, 123.04°W

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The named rock units Anadara (Anadara) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 46 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anadara (Anadara) and its relatives

Miocene

Where Anadara (Anadara) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,886 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Anadara (Anadara), 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

59 references

Each of the 175 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. 47 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

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Anadara (Diluvarca) secernenda · USNM:IZ:USNM 535689

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No picture of Anadara (Anadara) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Anadara (Anadara) itself, so it was not used.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Anadara (Anadara), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1847