Abra antwerpiensis

Abra antwerpiensis

via iDigBio · via iDigBio. 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
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 least 4.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiocene — about 12 of 12 occurrencesMiocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.5–9.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.0–8.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.4–7.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.9–7.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15.98 Mya11.63 Mya23.5 Mya6.7 Mya

12 occurrences of Abra antwerpiensis 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

12 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

3 formations

Berada — 51.10°N, 5.80°EBerchem — 51.29°N, 4.27°EBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.43°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Abra antwerpiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Abra antwerpiensis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Abra antwerpiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

602 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Abra antwerpiensis, 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

5 references

Each of the 12 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 Abra antwerpiensis

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 of Abra antwerpiensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Glibert 1945