Anadara perlabiata

Grant & Gale, 1931 · CC0 · via Wikidata/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 1.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
9 occurrences of Anadara perlabiata 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
9 occurrences- Pliocene6%
- Pleistocene94%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Anadara perlabiata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anadara perlabiata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Anadara perlabiata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
626 taxa- Anomia peruviana7 sites
- Argopecten ventricosus7 sites
- Caryocorbula luteola7 sites
- Cerithideopsis californica7 sites
- Crucibulum spinosum7 sites
- Cryptomya californica7 sites
- Diplodonta (Felaniella) sericata7 sites
- Donax (Donax) gouldii7 sites
- Donax (Paradonax) californicus7 sites
- Lucinisca nuttalli7 sites
- Phrontis tegula7 sites
- Caesia cerritensis6 sites
- Caesia perpinguis6 sites
- Californiconus californicus6 sites
- Callianax baetica6 sites
- Callianax biplicata6 sites
- Calliostoma gemmulatum6 sites
- Chione californiensis6 sites
- Chionopsis gnidia6 sites
- Crassinella nuculiformis6 sites
- Dentalium neohexagonum6 sites
- Diodora arnoldi6 sites
- Eupleura muriciformis6 sites
- Fissurella volcano6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Anadara perlabiata, 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
5 references- Paleoecologic analysis and age of a late Pleistocene fossil assemblage from Upper Newport Bay, Newport Beach, Orange County, California3
- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California3
- Geology and Paleontology of Palos Verdes Hills, California1
- A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador1
- The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California1
Each of the 9 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 perlabiata
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Grant & Gale, 1931
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anadara perlabiata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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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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. (Grant, IV and Gale 1931)