Chlamys anapleus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChlamysPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Chlamys
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Chlamys
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chlamys
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 6.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 129 ka.
5 occurrences of Chlamys anapleus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
5 occurrences- Miocene60%
- Pleistocene40%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Chlamys anapleus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chlamys anapleus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Chlamys anapleus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
204 taxa- Calicantharus fortis2 sites
- Cyclocardia2 sites
- Globivenus fordii2 sites
- Halistylus pupoideus2 sites
- Hiatella arctica2 sites
- Hybolophus fluctuatus2 sites
- Megastraea undosa2 sites
- Miodontiscus prolongatus2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila)1 site
- Acrosterigma (Vasticardium)1 site
- Acteocina culcitella1 site
- Acteocina harpa1 site
- Actonia compacta1 site
- Admete gracilior1 site
- Ameritella carpenteri1 site
- Anadara (Anadara)1 site
- Anisocorbula ohiroi1 site
- Antalis pretiosa1 site
- Antiplanes catalinae1 site
- Atrimitra catalinae1 site
- Barleeia oldroydi1 site
- Boreotrophon multicostatus1 site
- Brachidontes1 site
- Caecum crebricinctum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Chlamys anapleus, 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
4 references- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.2
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of Sakhalin and Kurile Islands1
- Paleoecologic molluscan geography of the Californian Pleistocene1
- Geology and Paleontology of Palos Verdes Hills, California1
Each of the 5 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 Chlamys anapleus
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- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Chlamys anapleus 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 itChlamys through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Woodring 1946)