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Anomia ephippium

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae

Taxonomy

Anomia ephippium was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

A. aequiimpressa, A. alternans, A. anomoides, A. asagaiensis, A. atacamensis, A. besrukovi, A. bisulcata, A. burdigalensis, A. catiana, A. chinensis, A. colombiana, A. concentrica, A. cretacea, A. cryptostriata, A. cytaeum, A. degrangei, A. fearensis, A. filamentosa, A. floridana, A. floridiana, A. foldia, A. fulleri, A. gabbi, A. girondica, A. glypta, A. gregaria, A. hataei, A. hateaei, A. hyderi, A. iljinensis, A. imbricata, A. indecisa, A. irregularis, A. jugosa, A. kavranensis, A. lamellosa, A. libyca, A. linifera, A. lintea, A. lischkei, A. lizyensis, A. malinchae, A. mareana, A. marylandica, A. meridiana, A. mexicana, A. microgrammata, A. minuta, A. multilineata, A. navicelloides, A. oligoceanica, A. olmstedi, A. pellucida, A. penderana, A. perlineata, A. phippium, A. pileata, A. planulata, A. ponticulana, A. propatoris, A. psamatheis, A. rufa, A. rugosa, A. shimoyamai, A. squammula, A. subobliqua, A. subovalis, A. subquadrata, A. sulcata, A. suprajurensis, A. suwaneensis, A. tatei, A. tellinoides, A. texana, A. umbonata, A. variata, A. penjica, A. perlineata

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Anomia ephippium Linnaeus
1850	Anomia ephippium Wood p. 8
1860	Anomia ephippium Holmes p. 11
1939	Anomia ephippium Mukerjee p. 30
1976	Anomia ephippium Givens and Kennedy p. 974

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Bivalvia
—	Eubivalvia
subclass	Autobranchia	(Groblen 1894)
infraclass	Pteriomorphia	(Beurlen 1944)
—	Ostreomorphi	Ferussac 1822

Rank	Name	Author
—	Ostreioni	Ferussac 1822
—	Ostreata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Ostreiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Pectinida	(Gray 1854)
suborder	Anomiidina	Gray 1854
—	Anomioidei	Gray 1854
—	Anomioitei	Gray 1854
superfamily	Anomioidea	Rafinesque 1815
family	Anomiidae	Rafinesque 1815
genus	Anomia
species	ephippium	Linnaeus 1758

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Anomia ephippium Linnaeus 1758

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

low Mg calcitef

Composition 2:

aragonitef

Environment:

marineo

Locomotion:

stationaryg

Attached:

yesg

Epibiont:

yesg

Life habit:

epifaunalg

Diet:

suspension feederg

Vision:

blindc

Created:

2009-09-09 13:28:34

Modified:

2009-09-09 15:28:34

Source: g = genus, f = family, o = order, c = class

References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004, Sanchez Roig 1926

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Oligocene to the top of the Holocene or 27.30000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (55 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	Austria	Anomia ephippium (77734 77735)
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	Hungary	Anomia ephippium (8211)
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	Austria (Upper Austria)	Anomia ephippium (55237)
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	Austria (Lower Austria)	Anomia ephippium (55242)
Late/Upper Oligocene	27.3 - 23.04	Hungary	Anomia ephippium (8338)
Aquitanian	23.04 - 20.45	Italy (Pordenone)	Anomia ephippium (37350 37353)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.04 - 15.98	India	Anomia ephippium (76573 76574)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.04 - 15.98	Brazil (Para)	Anomia ephippium (65162 112590)
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	Italy	Anomia ephippium (178108 178110)
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	Germany	Anomia ephippium (164944 164945 188985)
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	Austria	Anomia ephippium (65161)
Langhian	15.98 - 13.82	Italy	Anomia ephippium (178112)
Langhian - Serravallian	15.98 - 11.63	Brazil (Para)	Anomia ephippium (58454)
Badenian	13.82 - 12.8	Poland	Anomia ephippium (32515)
Serravallian	13.82 - 11.63	Greece	Anomia ephippium (72305)
Tortonian	11.63 - 7.246	Greece	Anomia ephippium (72310)
Tortonian	11.63 - 7.246	Italy (Pordenone)	Anomia ephippium (37367)
Tortonian	11.63 - 7.246	Morocco	Anomia ephippium (173165)
Tortonian - Messinian	11.63 - 5.333	Italy	Anomia ephippium (207782)
Tortonian - Messinian	11.63 - 5.333	Morocco	Anomia ephippium (173160 173166 173167)
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	Algeria	Anomia ephippium (69864 70887)
Early/Lower Pliocene	5.333 - 3.6	Greece (Rhodes)	Anomia ephippium (122994)
Zanclean	5.333 - 3.6	Greece	Anomia ephippium (72316 72317 72318)
Zanclean	5.333 - 3.6	United Kingdom (England)	Anomia ephippium (84755 84992)
Pliocene	5.333 - 2.58	Italy	Anomia ephippium (72303)
Late/Upper Pliocene	3.6 - 2.58	Spain	Anomia ephippium (71144)
Piacenzian	3.6 - 2.58	Italy (Emilia-Romagna)	Anomia ephippium (178117)
Piacenzian	3.6 - 2.58	Greece	Anomia ephippium (72414 72415)
Piacenzian	3.6 - 2.58	Algeria (Relizane)	Anomia ephippium (168387)
Late/Upper Pliocene - Quaternary	3.6 - 0.0	Spain	Anomia ephippium (147805)
Gelasian	2.58 - 1.8	Greece	Anomia ephippium (153691)
Early/Lower Pleistocene	2.58 - 0.774	Italy	Anomia ephippium (78312)
Early/Lower Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene	2.58 - 0.0117	Italy (Livorno)	Anomia ephippium (173663)
Pleistocene	2.58 - 0.0117	USA (South Carolina)	Anomia ephippium (150656 203376)
Middle Pleistocene	0.774 - 0.129	Ireland	Anomia ephippium (178118)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	Morocco	Anomia ephippium (127638)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	Greece	Anomia ephippium (88773 88774)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	Netherlands	Anomia ephippium (98205)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	France	Anomia ephippium (56806)