Anodontia spherica
No picture of Anodontia spherica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Anodontia spherica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Anodontia spherica on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene67%
- 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.
Anodontia spherica and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Anodontia spherica and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Acanthina1 site
- Arca pacifica1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Chama1 site
- Chione1 site
- Ctena galapagana1 site
- Encope micropora1 site
- Eucidaris thouarsii1 site
- Hipponix1 site
- Malea ringens1 site
- Mitra1 site
- Pseudozonaria nigropunctata1 site
- Pyrene1 site
- Reticutriton lineatus1 site
- Saccostrea palmula1 site
- Tagelus dombeii1 site
- Tegula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Anodontia spherica, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Pliocene fossils from Baltra (South Seymour) Island, Galápagos Islands2
- Paleoecology and paleobiogeography of fossil mollusks from Isla Isabela (Galapagos, Ecuador)1
Each of the 3 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 Anodontia spherica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Anodontia spherica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Anodontia spherica 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAnodontia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall and Ochsner 1928)