Anatoma aspera
Anatoma aspera is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Anatomidae.

Gofas, S., Luque, Ángel A., Oliver, J. D., Templado, J., & Serrano, A. (2021). The Mollusca of Galicia Bank (NE Atlan… · CC BY 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
- AnatomaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Vetigastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 1.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 774 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Anatoma aspera on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
1 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.
Anatoma aspera and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Anatoma aspera and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Acmaea1 site
- Aequipecten opercularis1 site
- Alvania (Acinopsis)1 site
- Alvania (Galeodina)1 site
- Alvania (Turbona)1 site
- Anachis (Chauvetia) lineolata1 site
- Anodontia1 site
- Anomia ephippium1 site
- Apicularia guerini1 site
- Aporrhais pespelecani1 site
- Astarte sulcata1 site
- Balcis1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata1 site
- Bellaspira1 site
- Bittium1 site
- Bittium reticulatum1 site
- Buccinum humphreysianum1 site
- Buccinum undatum1 site
- Calliostoma1 site
- Calliostoma zizyphinum1 site
- Calyptraea chinensis1 site
- Capulus hungaricus1 site
- Cardita (Cardita) calyculata1 site
- Cerithium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Anatoma aspera, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Anatoma aspera
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Gofas, S., Luque, Ángel A., Oliver, J. D., Templado, J., & Serrano, A. (2021). The Mollusca of Galicia Bank (NE Atlan…
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anatoma aspera 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.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAnatoma through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Philippi 1844)