Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana

Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana

Julien Karnoub · CC BY-NC 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
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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 29 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 29 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 14 of 29 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.7–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

29 occurrences of Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana 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

29 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

7 formations

Pamlico — 32.08°N, 81.10°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 32.64°N, 80.01°WPamlico — 34.04°N, 77.89°WPamlico — 35.70°N, 75.74°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 2.58°S, 43.38°WPirabas — 3.09°S, 41.78°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WHorry Clay — 34.97°N, 76.97°WUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.27°W

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The named rock units Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

670 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana, 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

10 references

Each of the 29 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 Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana

Source
GBIF
Credit
Julien Karnoub
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itAnadara through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1819)