Anodontites

Anodontites is a genus of freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Mycetopodidae. Anodontites are present in South and Middle America, as far north as Mexico.

Anodontites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnodontitinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Unionida

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 7 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 7 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 7 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–8.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.6–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences66 Mya11.63 Mya74 Mya4 Mya

7 occurrences of Anodontites on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

7 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

5 formations

Solimões — 10.94°S, 69.34°WSolimões — 8.82°S, 69.23°WPebas — 3.77°S, 70.37°WMarília — 21.26°S, 48.54°WPebas — 4.03°S, 73.38°WPalo Pintado — 25.81°S, 65.48°W

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The named rock units Anodontites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Anodontites and its relatives

Miocene

Where Anodontites and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Anodontites, 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

4 references

Each of the 7 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 content2

Picture of Anodontites

Credit
Veronidae
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Anodontites trapesialis · USNM:IZ:803120

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.

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bruguière 1792