Anodontia alba

Anodontia alba, or the buttercup lucine, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Lucinidae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, its range extending from North Carolina in the United States to the West Indies.

Anodontia alba

Link, 1807 · CC0 · 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
AnodontiaPBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB, for Anodontia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Anodontia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Anodontia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 32 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 32 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 32 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 32 occurrencesPleistocene — about 19 of 32 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 14 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

32 occurrences of Anodontia alba on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

32 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

14 formations

Jackson 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°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WPamlico — 34.77°N, 76.65°WAnastasia — 26.33°N, 80.13°WQuebradillas Limestone — 18.02°N, 66.79°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.40°WMaissade — 18.90°N, 72.04°W

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The named rock units Anodontia alba has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anodontia alba and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Anodontia alba and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

975 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Anodontia alba, 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

18 references

Each of the 32 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. 6 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 alba

Credit
Link, 1807
Licence
CC0
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

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