Anatoma crispata
Anatoma crispata is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Anatomidae.

Natural History Museum Rotterdam · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- AnatomaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
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 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
5 occurrences of Anatoma crispata on record. 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
5 occurrences- Pliocene60%
- Pleistocene40%
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 the same rock
33 taxa- Admete viridula1 site
- Astarte borealis1 site
- Astarte montagui warhami1 site
- Balanus1 site
- Balanus crenatus1 site
- Boreochiton ruber1 site
- Boreotrophon clathratus1 site
- Buccinum1 site
- Chlamys (Chlamys) islandica1 site
- Chrysodomus (Sipho)1 site
- Crenella decussata1 site
- Cryptonatica affinis1 site
- Erginus rubellus1 site
- Hemithyris psittacea1 site
- Hiatella arctica1 site
- Lacuna1 site
- Lepeta1 site
- Lima subauriculata1 site
- Littorina1 site
- Littorina saxatilis groenlandica1 site
- Lyonsia arenosa1 site
- Macoma (Macoma) calcarea1 site
- Margarita cinerea1 site
- Margarita olivacea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Anatoma crispata, 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- The Early Pliocene Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Estepona, Southern Spain. Part 1: Vetigastropoda3
- Quaternary marine stratigraphy and geochronology in central West Greenland1
- Contributions to the Quaternary geology of northern West Greenland especially the raised marine deposits1
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 Anatoma crispata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Natural History Museum Rotterdam
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anatoma crispata 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
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAnatoma through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fleming 1828)