Abra angulata
No picture of Abra angulata 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 Abra angulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AbraPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Abra
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Abra
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Abra
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Abra angulata 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Abra angulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Abra angulata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Abra angulata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Anomia ephippium1 site
- Arca caelata1 site
- Atrina seminuda1 site
- Avicula atlantica1 site
- Caryocorbula contracta1 site
- Chione cribraria1 site
- Clathrolucina costata1 site
- Cupularia denticulata1 site
- Laevicardium serratum1 site
- Moira atropos1 site
- Mya (Arenomya) arenaria1 site
- Parvilucina crenulata1 site
- Semele transversa1 site
- Serrula variabilis1 site
- Silliquaria cariboea1 site
- Spisula (Hemimactra) solidissima1 site
- Tellina (Eurytellina) alternata1 site
- Trachycardium (Trachycardium) isocardia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Abra angulata, 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- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America1
- Post-Pleiocene Fossils of South Carolina1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Abra angulata 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 Abra angulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Abra angulata 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 itAbra through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Holmes 1860