Anatina

Anatina is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mactridae.

Anatina

Fritzmann2002 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
KymatoxinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 233 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 58 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 22 of 58 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 58 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 58 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 6 of 58 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 58 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 58 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 58 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 58 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 58 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 58 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 58 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 58 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence234–226 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences226–218 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences210–201 Mya — about 18 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences185–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–169 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences161–153 Mya — about 3 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–129 Mya — about 3 occurrences129–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences121–113 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences113–105 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences105–97 Mya — about 3 occurrences97–89 Mya — about 3 occurrences89–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–73 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 6 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences233.6 Mya129 ka242 Mya0 Mya

58 occurrences of Anatina on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

58 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

25 formations

Owl Creek — 34.74°N, 88.90°WOwl Creek — 34.88°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WCalcare di Zu — 45.85°N, 9.48°ECalcare di Zu — 45.82°N, 9.58°EVuache — 46.83°N, 6.52°EMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 106.90°WMancos Shale — 35.78°N, 106.94°WBuda Limestone — 30.26°N, 97.75°WColeraine — 47.00°N, 93.00°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WTaberna — 16.78°N, 96.95°WRiva di Solto — 46.00°N, 10.00°ENayband — 32.50°N, 57.35°EPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WNavidad — 33.94°S, 71.85°WBad Heart — 55.48°N, 118.20°WRiacheulo — 10.76°S, 37.08°WAmbarimaninga — 16.50°S, 46.00°ECaujarao — 11.46°N, 69.32°WKunrade — 50.88°N, 5.93°EChuy — 33.88°S, 53.52°WDachstein Limestone — 47.29°N, 17.83°EYeba — 30.35°N, 92.92°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ELadd — 33.76°N, 117.66°WAgardhfjellet — 78.10°N, 13.93°E

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The named rock units Anatina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anatina and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Anatina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

1,284 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Anatina, 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

33 references

Each of the 58 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. 21 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Anatina

Credit
Fritzmann2002
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Anatina anatina · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:208398

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itKymatoxinae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schumacher 1817