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Anatina

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Description

Anatina is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Mactridae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatina, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2286434	https://www.gbif.org/species/2286434
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	17331	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=17331

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Venerida : Anatinellidae : Anatina

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Veneroidei : Anatinellidae : Anatina

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
-	Eubivalvia	Carter 2011
subclass	Autobranchia
infraclass	Heteroconchia
-	Cardiomorphi	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardioni	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardiidia	Ferussac 1822
-	Cardiata	Ferussac 1822
superorder	Cardiiformii	Ferussac 1822
order	Cardiida	Ferussac 1822
suborder	Cardiidina	Ferussac 1822
-	Veneroidei
-	Veneroitei	Gray 1854
superfamily	Mactroidea
family	Anatinellidae	Deshayes 1853
subfamily	Kymatoxinae	Stenzel and Krause 1957
genus	Anatina	Schumacher 1817

Scientific Name

Anatina

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Anatina	genus	subjective synonym of Laternula	stated without evidence	Hedley, 1918
Anatina	genus	belongs to Pteropsellinae	stated with evidence	Vokes, 1980
Anatina	genus	belongs to Veneroida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Anatina	genus	belongs to Mactridae	stated with evidence	Rosenberg, 2005
Anatina	genus	belongs to Kymatoxinae	stated with evidence	Signorelli and Carter, 2016

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (13%)

First Recorded Appearance

237 - 232 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Motility

facultatively mobile

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

suspension feeder

Ecospace Comments

LIFE HISTORY: IS, MA, UN, SU according to Todd (2001).

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Bivalvia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatina

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Anatina actaea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina aegea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina alta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina amici ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Anatina anatina species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Anatina arcuata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Anatina arista ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Anatina astieriana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina austinensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina baldassari ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Anatina beckleyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina bellona species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina bipartita species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina boonei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina burckhardti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina carteroni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina claibornensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Anatina columbiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina combesi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina cornueliana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina courtautiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina cyprinus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina delia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina doddsi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina gladius ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Anatina hanseni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina icaunensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina lata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina lineata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina millepunctata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Anatina obliquiplicata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina parvula ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	164 Ma Middle Jurassic	164 Ma Middle Jurassic
Anatina passeri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Anatina pliculifera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina praecursor ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		10	237 Ma Middle Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Anatina puntata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina putatoria ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Anatina royana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina silinensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina suessi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	212 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Anatina texana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina tosta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina tryoniana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina vaulignyacensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Anatina zannoni ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1817	Anatina Schumacher
1980	Anatina Vokes p. 245
2002	Anatina Sepkoski, Jr.
2005	Anatina Rosenberg
2016	Anatina Signorelli and Carter p. 209

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Vokes H. E. (1980) Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue, Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Rosenberg G. (2005) Malacolog 4.0: A database of Western Atlantic marine Mollusca, [WWW database (version 4.1.0)] URL http://data.acnatsci.org/wasp

Signorelli J. H., Carter J. G. (2016) The Anatinellidae and Kymatoxinae: A reassessment of their affinities within the superfamily Mactroidea (Mollusca, Bivalvia), American Malacological Bulletin 33 2, 204-211

Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. - via World Register of Marine Species

Lamarck [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome 5. Paris: Deterville/Verdière, 612 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

An. s. Vert., 5 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Australian Faunal Directory, 2007 version. Available online at http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/ . - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

refer synonym source - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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