Anomia ornata
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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 most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
117 occurrences of Anomia ornata 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
117 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.
Found in
8 formations
- Escondido Formation62
- Providence Formation22
- Severn Formation8
- Prairie Bluff Formation · Selma Group5
- Peedee Formation5
- Chiwapa Formation3
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The named rock units Anomia ornata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anomia ornata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Anomia ornata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
502 taxa- Cymbophora65 sites
- Striarca65 sites
- Anomia argentaria54 sites
- Bryozoa49 sites
- Crassostrea48 sites
- Syncyclonema46 sites
- Cyprimeria45 sites
- Nuculana42 sites
- Ostrea41 sites
- Turritella40 sites
- Crassatella vadosa39 sites
- Cubitostrea tecticosta39 sites
- Vertebrata39 sites
- Camptonectes bubonis37 sites
- Granocardium37 sites
- Trachycardium eufaulensis37 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata36 sites
- Serpula36 sites
- Sphenodiscus36 sites
- Turritella trilira36 sites
- Crenella serica35 sites
- Linearis35 sites
- Liopeplum cretaceum34 sites
- Turritella bilira34 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 117 sites for Anomia ornata, 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- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain64
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain23
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf17
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages10
- Fabric of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Marine Macrofaunal Transition at Braggs, Alabama2
- A new Severn formation (Early Middle Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous) locality in Prince Georges County, Maryland1
Each of the 117 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 Anomia ornata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Anomia ornata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1876