Amiantis
Searched as Amiantis purpuratus. The Paleobiology Database treats Amiantis as the accepted name.
Daderot · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
- CallocardiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Amiantis on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
5 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Amiantis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Amiantis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
1,657 taxa- Glossaulax reclusiana35 sites
- Turritella cooperi26 sites
- Californiconus californicus25 sites
- Leporimetis obesa25 sites
- Lucinisca nuttalli25 sites
- Here excavata23 sites
- Cryptomya californica22 sites
- Dentalium neohexagonum22 sites
- Rexithaerus secta22 sites
- Callianax biplicata21 sites
- Donax (Donax) gouldii20 sites
- Saccella taphria20 sites
- Tivela (Pachydesma) stultorum20 sites
- Crepidula onyx19 sites
- Tresus nuttallii19 sites
- Acteocina culcitella18 sites
- Dallocardia quadragenarium18 sites
- Macoma nasuta18 sites
- Leptopecten latiauratus17 sites
- Thylacodes squamigerus17 sites
- Caesia fossatus16 sites
- Callianax pedroana16 sites
- Lucinoma acutilineata16 sites
- Caesia perpinguis15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 112 sites for Amiantis, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
1 referenceEach of the 5 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 Amiantis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Daderot
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Amiantis 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 itCallocardiinae through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Carpenter 1863)