Anomia ephippium

Anomia ephippium is a species of bivalve belonging to the family Anomiidae.

Anomia ephippium

Jan Johan ter Poorten · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
AnomiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Anomia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Anomia
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Anomia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 6 of 61 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 26 of 61 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 61 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 15 of 61 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.3–8.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.4–7.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.4–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

61 occurrences of Anomia ephippium on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

61 occurrences

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

23 formations

Pielach — 48.15°N, 15.17°EPielach — 48.22°N, 15.30°EPielach — 48.22°N, 15.36°EPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WRhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°ERhodes — 36.25°N, 28.17°EPreplans Sandstone — 46.22°N, 12.80°EBaghmara — 25.27°N, 90.23°EBaghmara — 25.18°N, 90.67°ECoralline Crag — 52.12°N, 1.55°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ELindos Acropolis — 35.92°N, 27.83°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°EPinczow — 50.47°N, 20.80°EMaraldi Sandstone — 46.22°N, 12.80°ELinz — 48.33°N, 14.34°EBurgeschleinitz — 48.63°N, 15.78°EGavdos — 34.83°N, 24.08°EApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°ETrachones — 37.92°N, 23.73°EKourtes — 35.20°N, 25.10°ESlama — 36.00°N, 0.60°EPanchina — 43.57°N, 10.35°EBaldissero — 45.03°N, 7.76°EMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°EWexford Gravels — 52.43°N, 6.33°WGuadaíra — 37.36°N, 5.84°W

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The named rock units Anomia ephippium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anomia ephippium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Anomia ephippium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,783 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Anomia ephippium, 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

36 references

Each of the 61 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. 24 further references are not listed. 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 Anomia ephippium

Credit
Jan Johan ter Poorten
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Anomia ephippium was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758