Anomia vaquerosensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnomiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Anomia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Anomia
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Anomia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
44 occurrences of Anomia vaquerosensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
44 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Anomia vaquerosensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anomia vaquerosensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Anomia vaquerosensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
190 taxa- Balanus36 sites
- Chlamys sespeensis26 sites
- Turritella inezana25 sites
- Dallocardia vaquerosense21 sites
- Califrapana vaquerosensis20 sites
- Macrochlamis magnolia20 sites
- Crenomytilus expansus19 sites
- Polinices (Neverita) reclusianus andersoni19 sites
- Clementia conradiana17 sites
- Mammalia16 sites
- Hybolophus granti15 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana projecta14 sites
- Macoma nasuta14 sites
- Panopea generosa14 sites
- Crassostrea vaquerosensis12 sites
- Crenostrea eldridgei12 sites
- Lucinoma acutilineata12 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinella) merriami11 sites
- Kewia fairbanksi11 sites
- Lyropecten miguelensis11 sites
- Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis11 sites
- Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte) ynezana11 sites
- Saxidomus vaquerosensis11 sites
- Spondylus perrini11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Anomia vaquerosensis, 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
4 references- The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California. I. Paleontology41
- Sirenian evolution in the North Pacific Ocean1
- Stratigraphic relations of phosphate- and gypsum-bearing Upper Miocene strata, upper Sespe Creek, Ventura County, California1
- A microfauna from the Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene, Simi Valley, Ventura County, California1
Each of the 44 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Anomia vaquerosensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAnomia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Loel and Corey 1932