Anchura substriata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnchuraPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Anchura
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Anchura
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Anchura
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Anchura substriata on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- Ripley Formation3
- Coffee Sand Formation · Selma Group1
- Wolfe City Formation1
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The named rock units Anchura substriata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anchura substriata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Anchura substriata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
443 taxa- Turritella trilira5 sites
- Ecphora proquadricostata4 sites
- Euspira rectilabrum4 sites
- Graciliala calcaris4 sites
- Gyrodes major4 sites
- Laxispira lumbricalis4 sites
- Morea marylandica4 sites
- Paladmete cancellaria4 sites
- Sargana stantoni4 sites
- Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus) americanus3 sites
- Cylichna3 sites
- Drilluta major3 sites
- Gegania parabella3 sites
- Goniocylichna bisculpturata3 sites
- Lemniscolittorina berryi3 sites
- Lomirosa cretacea3 sites
- Paladmete gardnerae3 sites
- Ringicula (Ringicula) pulchella3 sites
- Thylacus cretaceus3 sites
- Tornatellaea cretacea3 sites
- Turritella tippana3 sites
- Turritella vertebroides3 sites
- Variseila meeki3 sites
- Acirsa (Hemiacirsa) americana2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Anchura substriata, 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
3 references- Gastropods from the coffee Sand (Upper Cretaceous) of Mississippi2
- Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations2
- The fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon creek, Tennessee1
Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Anchura substriata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anchura substriata 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.
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What may have been alongside itAnchura through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wade 1926