Anomia laevigata

Anomia laevigata

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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 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 139.1 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 12 of 13 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 13 occurrencesLate Cretaceous140–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 6 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132.6 Mya93.9 Mya140 Mya89 Mya

13 occurrences of Anomia laevigata on record, most of them in the Early 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

13 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

2 formations

Atherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.58°WAtherfield Clay — 50.62°N, 1.34°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WMungo River — 4.53°N, 9.51°E

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The named rock units Anomia laevigata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anomia laevigata and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Anomia laevigata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

326 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Anomia laevigata, 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

6 references

Each of the 13 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 content1

Picture of Anomia laevigata

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Anomia laevigata 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itAnomia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1836