Angulus
Searched as Angulus (Peronaea) benedeni fallax. The Paleobiology Database treats Angulus as the accepted name.

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- TellininaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 15.98 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Angulus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Angulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Angulus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Angulus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
2,588 taxa- Parvicardium29 sites
- Varicorbula gibba25 sites
- Abra22 sites
- Cyclocardia21 sites
- Glycymeris21 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii21 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima19 sites
- Crassinella lunulata18 sites
- Limopsis18 sites
- Saccella westendorpi18 sites
- Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella18 sites
- Yoldia (Yoldia) glaberrima18 sites
- Abra aequalis17 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymeris) obovata17 sites
- Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita17 sites
- Lucinoma borealis17 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum17 sites
- Polinices17 sites
- Aequipecten16 sites
- Astarte (Astarte) radiata16 sites
- Glossus (Glossus)16 sites
- Gouldia (Gouldia) minima16 sites
- Lentigodentalium16 sites
- Mercenaria campechiensis16 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 170 sites for Angulus, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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 Angulus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Angulus 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 itTellininae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Megerle 1811)