Anechinocardium weaveri

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnechinocardiumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cardiidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Cardiidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
18 occurrences of Anechinocardium weaveri on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
18 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Anechinocardium weaveri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anechinocardium weaveri and its relatives
EoceneWhere Anechinocardium weaveri and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
120 taxa- Moerella quasimacoma11 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) clementensis11 sites
- Procerapex bentsonae11 sites
- Boreoscala10 sites
- Natica (Natica) weaveri10 sites
- Olequahia schencki10 sites
- Scaphander impunctatus9 sites
- Exilia bentsonae8 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis8 sites
- Thracia keaseyensis8 sites
- Acamptogenotia (Acamptogenotia) tessellata7 sites
- Parasyrinx delicata7 sites
- Turricula keaseyensis7 sites
- Acamptogenotia (Acamptogenotia) nodulosa6 sites
- Bonellitia (Admetula) tumida6 sites
- Bonellitia (Bonellitia) smithwickensis6 sites
- Conomitra vernoniana6 sites
- Echinophoria dalli6 sites
- Epitonium (Boreoscala) condoni6 sites
- Epitonium (Boreoscala) keaseyense6 sites
- Ennucula keaseyensis5 sites
- Lamelliconcha clarki5 sites
- Scaphander stewarti5 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Anechinocardium weaveri, 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- Paleogene marine bivalves of the deep-water Keasey Formation in Oregon, Part III: The heteroconchs14
- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington2
- A methane seep from the deep-marine, late Eocene Keasey Formation, Rock Creek, Columbia County, Oregon1
- Makah Formation - A deep-marginal-basin sequence of Late Eocene and Oligocene age in the Northwestern Olympic Peninsula, Washington1
Each of the 18 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

Picture of Anechinocardium weaveri
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Anechinocardium weaveri 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 itAnechinocardium through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Anderson and Martin 1914)