Anofia aro
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnofiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 66 Mya.
7 occurrences of Anofia aro 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
7 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.
Anofia aro and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Anofia aro and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Plicatula hirsuta4 sites
- Veniella4 sites
- Agelasina plenodonta3 sites
- Mesocallista3 sites
- Pseudocucullaea lens3 sites
- Trigonarca angolensis3 sites
- Veniella undata3 sites
- Ambigostrea tripolitana2 sites
- Astarte awensis2 sites
- Astarte similis2 sites
- Granocardium2 sites
- Gyrostrea delettrei2 sites
- Inoceramus (Endocostea)2 sites
- Liopistha2 sites
- Plicatula ibo2 sites
- Protocardia (Protocardia)2 sites
- Agerostrea ungulatus1 site
- Ambigostrea villei1 site
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) pliciferum1 site
- Anomoeodus1 site
- Aphrodina (Mesocallista) andersoni1 site
- Aphrodina angustosinuosa1 site
- Arca (Eonavicula) bogaerti1 site
- Austrocardium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Anofia aro, 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- Mollusques fossiles du Crétace de la Côte occidentale d'Afrique du Cameroun à l'Angola. II. - Lamellibranches3
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages2
- Upper Cretaceous Mollusca (Lamellibranchia and Gastropoda) from Nigeria2
Each of the 7 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Anofia aro
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Anofia aro 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAnofia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reyment 1955