Anadara (Larkinia) notabilis

Searched as Anadara notabilis. The Paleobiology Database treats Anadara (Larkinia) notabilis as the accepted name.

Anadara notabilis, or the Eared ark clam, is a clam in the family Arcidae. It can be found in Caribbean waters, ranging from Florida to Bermuda and Brazil.

Anadara (Larkinia) notabilis

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 26 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 26 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 11 of 26 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 4 of 26 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

26 occurrences of Anadara (Larkinia) notabilis 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

26 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

10 formations

Mare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WCumana — 10.47°N, 64.15°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.27°WBoca Chica — 10.62°N, 64.00°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°WBanano — 9.66°N, 82.75°WWare — 11.86°N, 71.35°W

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The named rock units Anadara (Larkinia) notabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anadara (Larkinia) notabilis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Anadara (Larkinia) notabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

93 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Anadara (Larkinia) notabilis, 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

9 references

Each of the 26 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 (Larkinia) notabilis

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James St. John
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CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Anadara (Larkinia) notabilis 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. (Röding 1798)