Annachlamys

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PectininaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pectinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
15 occurrences of Annachlamys on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
15 occurrences- Miocene47%
- Pliocene20%
- Pleistocene33%
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
7 formations
- Nullarbor Limestone Formation2
- Abrakurrie Limestone Formation2
- Togopi Formation2
- Upper Kalibeng Formation2
- Ryukyu Limestone Formation · Sakishima Group1
- Poivre Formation1
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The named rock units Annachlamys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Annachlamys and its relatives
MioceneWhere Annachlamys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
183 taxa- Calliostoma3 sites
- Cardita3 sites
- Conus3 sites
- Decatopecten plica3 sites
- Natica3 sites
- Polinices3 sites
- Tucetona3 sites
- Acrosterigma (Vasticardium)2 sites
- Amussiopecten2 sites
- Anadara2 sites
- Anadara (Anadara) biformis2 sites
- Angaria2 sites
- Arca navicularis2 sites
- Bufonaria2 sites
- Callista2 sites
- Chama2 sites
- Chlamys (Mimachlamys)2 sites
- Cryptopecten nux2 sites
- Cypraea2 sites
- Diodora2 sites
- Ethalia2 sites
- Galaxea astreata2 sites
- Glans2 sites
- Glycymeris2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Annachlamys, 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
9 references- Geology of the Western Australian part of the Eucla basin4
- Age refinement of the Sonde molluscan fauna, East Java, Indonesia2
- Cenozoic Molluscs and Echinoids of Barrow Island, Western Australia2
- Preliminary notes on fossil records of East Malaysia and Brunei2
- Palaeoecology of well-preserved coral communities in a siliciclastic environment from the Late Pleistocene (MIS 7), Kish Island, Persian Gulf (Iran): the development of low-relief reef frameworks (biostromes) in increasingly restricted environments1
- Occurence of submerged Pleistocene stony corals and marine molluscs at Vazhakala near Cochin and their significance on sea level changes1
- Geology of Ishigaki-shima Ryukyu-retto1
- The lamellibranchs of the Older Tertiary of Australia (part 1)1
- Die Tertiärschichten auf Java. Nach den Entdecjungen von Fr. Junghuhn1
Each of the 15 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 Annachlamys
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Annachlamys 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 itPectininae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Iredale 1939)