Anomia septenaria

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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 3.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Anomia septenaria on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Anomia septenaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anomia septenaria and its relatives
EoceneWhere Anomia septenaria and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Architectonica1 site
- Architectonica jabonillensis1 site
- Carolia (Carolia) peruviana1 site
- Carolia (Parinomya) parinensis1 site
- Caryocorbula greda1 site
- Caryocorbula jabonillaensis1 site
- Cerithium xenium1 site
- Clementia (Clementia) parinensis1 site
- Donax (Latona) prosopsis1 site
- Euspira vicanus1 site
- Hercoglossa peruviana1 site
- Lamelliconcha saponaria1 site
- Ringicardium restinense1 site
- Sigatica harrisi1 site
- Venericardia (Venericor) samanensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Anomia septenaria, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 content1

Picture of Anomia septenaria
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anomia septenaria 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 itAnomia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olsson 1928