Acanthopecten carboniferus

Acanthopecten carboniferus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcanthopectenPBDB
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 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 9 of 10 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 10 occurrencesPermian325–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 1 occurrence305–303 Mya — about 2 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 2 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 2 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303.7 Mya274.4 Mya325 Mya266 Mya

10 occurrences of Acanthopecten carboniferus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

10 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

7 formations

Honaker Trail — 38.58°N, 109.58°WMattoon — 39.18°N, 88.60°WCherry Canyon — 31.86°N, 104.83°WConemaugh — 39.42°N, 79.33°WHolder — 33.40°N, 105.87°WGlenshaw — 39.98°N, 81.73°WDrum Limestone — 37.77°N, 95.22°W

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The named rock units Acanthopecten carboniferus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acanthopecten carboniferus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Acanthopecten carboniferus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

305 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Acanthopecten carboniferus, 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

9 references

Each of the 10 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 Acanthopecten carboniferus

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Acanthopecten carboniferus 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 itAcanthopecten through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stevens 1858)