Anchura pennata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnchuraPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Anchura
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Anchura
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Anchura
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Anchura pennata 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
5 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
3 formations
- Marshalltown Formation2
- Navesink Formation · Monmouth Group1
- New Egypt Formation · Monmouth Group1
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The named rock units Anchura pennata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anchura pennata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Anchura pennata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
103 taxa- Cliona4 sites
- Cucullaea4 sites
- Euspira halli4 sites
- Agerostrea3 sites
- Avellana3 sites
- Crassatella vadosa3 sites
- Gryphaeostrea vomer3 sites
- Gyrodes abyssinus3 sites
- Gyrodes petrosus3 sites
- Pyropsis3 sites
- Agerostrea falcata2 sites
- Anomoeodus phaseolus2 sites
- Baculites ovatus2 sites
- Belemnitella americana2 sites
- Choristothyris2 sites
- Cucullaea vulgaris2 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata2 sites
- Exogyra ponderosa2 sites
- Hadrosauridae2 sites
- Hamulus squamosus2 sites
- Neithea quinquecostata2 sites
- Panopea2 sites
- Paranomia scabra2 sites
- Pecten2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Anchura pennata, 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- Local invertebrate assemblages in the Upper Cretaceous Marshallton Formation along the valley of Oldmans Creek in southern New Jersey2
- Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary2
- Faunal changes across the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary in the Atlantic coastal plain of New Jersey: restructuring the marine community after the K-T mass-extinction event1
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 content0
No picture of Anchura pennata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Anchura pennata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAnchura through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morton 1834)