Anadara obesa
Searched as Arca obesa. The Paleobiology Database treats Anadara obesa as the accepted name.
No picture of Anadara obesa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Anadara obesa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnadaraPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Anadara
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Anadara
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Anadara
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae
Time the record covers
At most 4.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Anadara obesa on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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 Anadara obesa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anadara obesa and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Anadara obesa and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Agriopoma1 site
- Anadara nux1 site
- Architectonica nobilis1 site
- Arcinella californica1 site
- Bursa nana jamaicensis1 site
- Cancellaria (Euclia) surpacifica1 site
- Cancellaria urceolata1 site
- Caryocorbula ovulata1 site
- Chione (Chione)1 site
- Chionopsis amathusia1 site
- Circulus1 site
- Conasprella1 site
- Conus1 site
- Conus arcuatus vacuanus1 site
- Conus pyriformis1 site
- Crassinella1 site
- Crenella decussata1 site
- Crepidula onyx1 site
- Crucibulum (Crucibulum)1 site
- Cymatophos1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Distorsio decussata1 site
- Divalinga eburnea1 site
- Dosinia ponderosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Anadara obesa, 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
3 references- Sequence stratigraphy of the Punta Ballena Member of the Jama Formation (Early Pleistocene, Ecuador): insights from integrated sedimentologic, taphonomic and paleoecologic analysis of molluscan shell concentrations2
- Tertiary and Quaternary fossils from Burica Peninsula of Panama and Costa Rica1
- A Pliocene fauna from Western Ecuador1
Each of the 4 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 Anadara obesa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Anadara obesa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Anadara obesa 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAnadara through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1833)