Anomalodonta
No picture of Anomalodonta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Anomalodonta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmbonychiidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ambonychiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.2 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Anomalodonta on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
10 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
6 formations
- Waynesville Formation4
- Whitewater Formation2
- Corryville Formation1
- Arnheim Formation1
- Liberty Formation1
- Stonington Formation1
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The named rock units Anomalodonta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anomalodonta and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Anomalodonta and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
343 taxa- Ambonychia7 sites
- Pterinea demissa6 sites
- Treptoceras6 sites
- Conularia5 sites
- Cornulites5 sites
- Ctenodonta5 sites
- Isotelus maximus5 sites
- Platystrophia5 sites
- Pterinea5 sites
- Rafinesquina5 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata5 sites
- Rhytimya5 sites
- Sinuites5 sites
- Trematis5 sites
- Berenicea4 sites
- Cymatonota4 sites
- Endoceras4 sites
- Flexicalymene4 sites
- Hallopora4 sites
- Hebertella occidentalis4 sites
- Isotelus4 sites
- Modiolopsis4 sites
- Nuculites4 sites
- Orthodesma4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Anomalodonta, 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
5 references- The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region3
- Taxonomic richness and abundance of Late Ordovician gastropods and bivalves in mollusc-rich strata of the Cincinnati Arch2
- The paleoecology of a Late Ordovician shale unit from southwest Ohio and southeastern Indiana2
- The coral horizons and stratigraphy of the upper Richmond Group in Kentucky west of the Cincinnati Arch2
- The Richmond Formation of Michigan1
Each of the 10 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 content0
No picture of Anomalodonta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Anomalodonta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Anomalodonta 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 itAmbonychiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1874