Anadara (Cunearca) inutilis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnadaraPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Anadara
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Anadara
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Anadara
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae

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 20.45 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Miocene — about 28 of 28 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 28 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.1–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.5–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.4–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15.98 Mya11.63 Mya20.9 Mya4.8 Mya

28 occurrences of Anadara (Cunearca) inutilis 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

28 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

Castilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.98°N, 71.29°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.36°WFerrotepec — 18.03°N, 103.60°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WJimol — 12.03°N, 71.30°WJimol — 11.94°N, 71.36°WUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.27°W

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The named rock units Anadara (Cunearca) inutilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Anadara (Cunearca) inutilis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Anadara (Cunearca) inutilis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

254 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Anadara (Cunearca) inutilis, 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

Each of the 28 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 content1

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:150205

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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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jung 1965