Anadara uropigimelana

Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1827 · 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 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
5 occurrences of Anadara uropigimelana on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
5 occurrences- Pliocene20%
- Pleistocene80%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Anadara uropigimelana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anadara uropigimelana and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Anadara uropigimelana and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
122 taxa- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata3 sites
- Architectonica3 sites
- Chlamys3 sites
- Crassostrea3 sites
- Dosinia3 sites
- Mactra3 sites
- Natica3 sites
- Paphia3 sites
- Pitar3 sites
- Plicatula3 sites
- Raeta3 sites
- Tellinidae3 sites
- Timoclea3 sites
- Anadara (Cunearca) ferruginea2 sites
- Anadara (Scapharca) inaequivalvis2 sites
- Anomia2 sites
- Architectonica perspectiva2 sites
- Barbatia2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Clementia (Clementia) papyracea2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Cyclostrema2 sites
- Cymatiidae2 sites
- Diplodonta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Anadara uropigimelana, 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
3 references- Neogene and Quaternary Mollusca from the Makran Coast, Pakistan3
- Biofacies and diagenetic alterations of the Pleistocene coral reefs, northwest Red Sea coast, Saudi Arabia1
- Late Pleistocene molluscan assemblages from the coral reefs of the Kenya coast1
Each of the 5 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 uropigimelana
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1827
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anadara uropigimelana 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. (Bory 1824)