Anadara osmonti

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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 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
19 occurrences of Anadara osmonti on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
19 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
5 formations
- Temblor Formation12
- Topanga Canyon Formation · Topanga Group3
- Round Mountain Formation2
- Ysidro Formation1
- Twin Rivers Formation1
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The named rock units Anadara osmonti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anadara osmonti and its relatives
MioceneWhere Anadara osmonti and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
143 taxa- Pacipecten andersoni9 sites
- Lucinoma acutilineata7 sites
- Chione5 sites
- Dosinia5 sites
- Mactromeris albaria5 sites
- Clementia (Egesta) pertenuis4 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana4 sites
- Macoma4 sites
- Mactromeris sectoris4 sites
- Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis4 sites
- Turritella ocoyana4 sites
- Calyptraea costellata3 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) temblorensis3 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinella) merriami3 sites
- Leporimetis obesa3 sites
- Modiolus (Modiolus) ynezianus garzaensis3 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) ochsneri3 sites
- Panopea abrupta3 sites
- Pseudocardium densatum minor3 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) obispoana3 sites
- Vaquerosella merriami3 sites
- Acteon boulderanus2 sites
- Anadara (Anadara) devincta2 sites
- Arcinella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Anadara osmonti, 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
6 references- Stratigraphy and paleontology of the marine Neogene formations of the Coalinga region, California12
- Geology of the eastern part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California3
- Reconnaissance of the geology and oil possibilities of Baja California, Mexico1
- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington1
- New mollusks from the Round Mountain Silt (Temblor) Miocene of California1
- Notes on the Vaqueros and Temblor formations of the California Miocene with descriptions of new species1
Each of the 19 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 osmonti
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- iDigBio
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- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anadara osmonti 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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1909)