Anodontia

Anodontia is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Lucinidae.

Anodontia

Marie HENNION · 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
LeucosphaerinaePBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 116 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 14 of 116 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 116 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 32 of 116 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 30 of 116 occurrencesPleistocene — about 28 of 116 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 16 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 21 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 27 occurrences59.24 Mya11.7 ka63 Mya0 Mya

116 occurrences of Anodontia 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

116 occurrences

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

42 formations

Gurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.47°N, 71.17°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WImperial — 33.02°N, 116.07°WImperial — 32.83°N, 116.04°WImperial — 33.41°N, 116.06°WWare — 11.91°N, 71.28°WWare — 11.96°N, 71.28°WWare — 11.82°N, 71.41°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.81°N, 96.65°WSan Emigdio — 35.06°N, 119.18°WSan Emigdio — 35.41°N, 119.69°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WMint Spring — 32.27°N, 89.99°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WJackson Bluff — 30.97°N, 84.53°WPonce — 18.01°N, 66.61°WIronshore — 19.33°N, 81.25°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WProgreso — 2.28°S, 80.43°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WCilanang — 7.01°S, 107.33°ECilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°ESan Andres — 12.53°N, 81.70°WJimol — 12.03°N, 71.29°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WCastilletes — 11.85°N, 71.37°WCastilletes — 11.94°N, 71.32°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°ENew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WKhuiala — 27.86°N, 72.93°E

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The named rock units Anodontia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anodontia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Anodontia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,386 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Anodontia, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

54 references

Each of the 116 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. 42 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Anodontia

Credit
Marie HENNION
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Anodontia alba · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:301628

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

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What may have been alongside itLeucosphaerinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Link 1807