Anatina austinensis

Larry Chen · 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
- AnatinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Anatina
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Anatina
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Anatina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Anatina austinensis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Anatina austinensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anatina austinensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Anatina austinensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Anatina shattucki1 site
- Arctica mediale1 site
- Budaiceras alticarinatum1 site
- Budaiceras elegantior1 site
- Budaiceras hyatti1 site
- Camptonectes (Camptonectes) cottaldinus1 site
- Cottaldia1 site
- Exogyra clarki1 site
- Gervillia solenoidea1 site
- Graptocarcinus texanus1 site
- Hemiaster calvini1 site
- Homomya1 site
- Homomya austinensis1 site
- Lima wacoensis1 site
- Mantelliceras1 site
- Mantelliceras saxbii1 site
- Mariella wysogorskii1 site
- Neithea (Neitheops) quinquecostata1 site
- Neithea duplicicosta1 site
- Neithea texana1 site
- Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) texanum1 site
- Pachymya austinensis1 site
- Pholadomya ragsdalei1 site
- Pholadomya shattucki1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Anatina austinensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Anatina austinensis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Larry Chen
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Anatina austinensis 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 itAnatina through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shattuck 1903