Acanthopecten

Acanthopecten

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcanthopectininaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pectinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 104 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 365.2 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 187 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 60 of 187 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 125 of 187 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 187 occurrences367–364 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences364–360 Mya — about 1 occurrence360–356 Mya — about 1 occurrence356–352 Mya — about 2 occurrences352–348 Mya — about 3 occurrences348–344 Mya — about 4 occurrences344–340 Mya — about 4 occurrences340–336 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences336–332 Mya — about 3 occurrences332–328 Mya — about 3 occurrences328–324 Mya — about 3 occurrences324–320 Mya — about 1 occurrence320–316 Mya — about 1 occurrence316–312 Mya — about 3 occurrences312–309 Mya — about 5 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 11 occurrences305–301 Mya — about 11 occurrences301–297 Mya — about 4 occurrences297–293 Mya — about 3 occurrences293–289 Mya — about 8 occurrences289–285 Mya — about 4 occurrences285–281 Mya — about 9 occurrences281–277 Mya — about 12 occurrences277–273 Mya — about 12 occurrences273–269 Mya — about 13 occurrences269–265 Mya — about 17 occurrences265–261 Mya — about 9 occurrences261–257 Mya — about 14 occurrences257–254 Mya — about 20 occurrences254–250 Mya — about 4 occurrences358.86 Mya254.14 Mya367 Mya250 Mya

187 occurrences of Acanthopecten on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

187 occurrences

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

70 formations

Park City — 42.97°N, 106.78°WPark City — 43.56°N, 108.87°WPark City — 41.71°N, 111.05°WPark City — 43.35°N, 109.40°WPark City — 43.05°N, 109.11°WPark City — 43.53°N, 108.65°WPark City — 43.01°N, 109.00°WPark City — 43.32°N, 110.15°WPark City — 42.01°N, 110.59°WPark City — 43.19°N, 109.16°WWord — 30.39°N, 103.18°WWord — 30.34°N, 103.30°WKanokura — 39.00°N, 141.53°EPhosphoria — 42.97°N, 106.78°WPhosphoria — 47.06°N, 109.43°WPhosphoria — 41.62°N, 110.68°WPhosphoria — 44.89°N, 112.12°WPhosphoria — 44.76°N, 112.30°WRoad Canyon — 30.38°N, 103.16°WRoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WRoad Canyon — 30.35°N, 103.24°WMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WGerster — 40.17°N, 114.83°WGerster — 40.25°N, 115.17°WCathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.11°WCathedral Mountain — 30.31°N, 103.29°WCathedral Mountain — 30.39°N, 103.16°WPottawatomie — 39.10°N, 94.57°WPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WPottawatomie — 38.94°N, 95.10°WBlack Rock — 51.33°N, 2.74°WLoray — 39.21°N, 114.98°WPequop — 40.23°N, 115.16°WPequop — 39.21°N, 114.98°WLongtan — 29.83°N, 106.43°ELongtan — 26.03°N, 105.10°ELongtan — 24.80°N, 112.35°ELongtan — 26.50°N, 105.58°EBaird — 40.79°N, 122.30°WBaird — 40.94°N, 122.27°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WBone Spring — 31.90°N, 104.88°WBone Spring — 31.51°N, 104.93°WBone Spring — 31.34°N, 104.86°WCherry Canyon — 31.86°N, 104.82°WSupai — 33.99°N, 110.35°WSupai — 33.93°N, 110.19°WSupai — 33.94°N, 110.11°WJungle Creek — 64.97°N, 140.88°WJungle Creek — 65.39°N, 140.70°WGlenshaw — 39.98°N, 81.73°WGlenshaw — 40.43°N, 79.30°WGlenshaw — 40.38°N, 79.75°WCherokee Shale — 37.36°N, 94.82°WShedhorn — 47.06°N, 109.43°WShedhorn — 44.80°N, 112.20°WHonaker Trail — 38.58°N, 109.58°W

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The named rock units Acanthopecten has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 46 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acanthopecten and its relatives

Permian

Where Acanthopecten and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

2,571 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 175 sites for Acanthopecten, 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

66 references

Each of the 187 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. 54 further references are not listed. 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 Acanthopecten

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Acanthopecten 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 itAcanthopectininae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Girty 1903