Anomalocardia cuneimeris

Eric A. Lazo-Wasem · CC0 · 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
- AnomalocardiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Anomalocardia
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Anomalocardia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Anomalocardia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 762 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
14 occurrences of Anomalocardia cuneimeris on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
14 occurrences- Pleistocene86%
- Holocene14%
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
5 formations
- Anastasia Formation4
- Fort Thompson Formation4
- New Orleans Barrier Trend Formation1
- Bermont Formation1
- Mount Hope Formation1
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The named rock units Anomalocardia cuneimeris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anomalocardia cuneimeris and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Anomalocardia cuneimeris and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
404 taxa- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa5 sites
- Anomia simplex5 sites
- Chione cancellata5 sites
- Crassinella lunulata5 sites
- Crepidula fornicata5 sites
- Crepidula plana5 sites
- Dinocardium robustum5 sites
- Diodora cayenensis5 sites
- Laevicardium serratum5 sites
- Mercenaria campechiensis5 sites
- Mulinia lateralis5 sites
- Neverita duplicatus5 sites
- Oliva (Ispidula) sayana5 sites
- Olivella mutica5 sites
- Parvilucina multistriata5 sites
- Rangia (Rangia) cuneata5 sites
- Semele bellastriata5 sites
- Sinum perspectivum5 sites
- Timoclea grus5 sites
- Arcinella cornuta4 sites
- Astyris lunata4 sites
- Boonea seminuda4 sites
- Brachidontes exustus4 sites
- Caryocorbula contracta4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Anomalocardia cuneimeris, 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
7 references- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions7
- The Pleistocene molluscan fauna from Leisley Shell Pit 1, Hillsborough County, Florida2
- Mollusca: Fort Thompson Formation (Late Pleistocene)1
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary sediments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana1
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary seduments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana1
- Review of the evidence on which the human remains found at Vero, Florida, are referred to the Pleistocene1
- Two collections of Pleistocene fossils from the Isthmus of Panama1
Each of the 14 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 content2

Picture of Anomalocardia cuneimeris
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Eric A. Lazo-Wasem
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Anomalocardia cuneimeris · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:176386
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAnomalocardia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1846)