Aequipecten

Aequipecten is a genus of scallops, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae.

Aequipecten

Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
scallopPBDB
Sits inside
ChlamydinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 241 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 452 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 6 of 452 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 9 of 452 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 25 of 452 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 452 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 24 of 452 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 452 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 29 of 452 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 452 occurrencesEocene — about 25 of 452 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 40 of 452 occurrencesMiocene — about 165 of 452 occurrencesPliocene — about 60 of 452 occurrencesPleistocene — about 53 of 452 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 4 occurrences244–235 Mya — about 2 occurrences235–227 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences227–218 Mya — about 4 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 3 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 1 occurrence202–193 Mya — about 3 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 21 occurrences185–176 Mya — about 1 occurrence176–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–160 Mya — about 5 occurrences160–151 Mya — about 10 occurrences151–143 Mya — about 13 occurrences143–134 Mya — about 3 occurrences101–92 Mya — about 5 occurrences92–84 Mya — about 6 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 6 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 11 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 21 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 29 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 46 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 91 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 159 occurrences241.464 Mya11.7 ka252 Mya0 Mya

452 occurrences of Aequipecten on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

452 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

103 formations

Puerto Madryn — 42.50°S, 64.25°WPuerto Madryn — 42.50°S, 64.50°WPuerto Madryn — 42.84°S, 64.88°WPuerto Madryn — 42.67°S, 64.98°WPuerto Madryn — 42.58°S, 64.59°WPuerto Madryn — 42.97°S, 64.31°WPuerto Madryn — 42.42°S, 64.30°WPuerto Madryn — 42.58°S, 64.32°WPuerto Madryn — 42.07°S, 63.75°WPuerto Madryn — 42.42°S, 64.48°WPuerto Madryn — 44.50°S, 65.27°WLillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°EChickasawhay — 31.45°N, 87.69°WChickasawhay — 31.53°N, 87.91°WChickasawhay — 31.53°N, 87.81°WChickasawhay — 31.52°N, 87.49°WChickasawhay — 31.67°N, 88.64°WChickasawhay — 31.72°N, 88.66°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°Eopoka — 51.15°N, 21.72°Eopoka — 51.00°N, 21.00°Eopoka — 51.10°N, 21.80°EBerada — 51.10°N, 5.80°ECaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.68°N, 80.28°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WRed Crag — 51.87°N, 1.29°ERed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ERed Crag — 52.03°N, 1.32°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°EJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WJackson Bluff — 30.97°N, 84.53°WJackson Bluff — 29.85°N, 84.66°WFatu — 9.76°S, 124.12°EFatu — 9.69°S, 124.20°EFatu — 9.45°S, 124.43°EFatu — 9.45°S, 124.52°EFatu — 9.44°S, 124.52°EDajialian — 37.49°N, 99.38°ECape Stewart — 70.45°N, 22.65°WCape Stewart — 70.44°N, 22.65°WCape Stewart — 70.47°N, 22.36°WCape Stewart — 70.46°N, 22.33°WPaksa — 73.00°N, 113.00°ECoralline Crag — 52.12°N, 1.54°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°ECoralline Crag — 52.12°N, 1.55°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.35°ECape Stewart Beds — 70.46°N, 22.71°WCape Stewart Beds — 70.46°N, 22.63°WAbbas — 15.40°N, 42.53°EAbbas — 16.75°N, 42.00°EAbbas — 16.55°N, 42.00°EAbbas — 16.90°N, 41.67°EGatun — 9.35°N, 79.85°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WLakhish — 31.91°N, 34.92°EManiyara Fort — 23.46°N, 68.60°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EFlint River — 30.91°N, 84.58°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WKattendijk — 51.25°N, 4.28°EOkarahia Sandstone — 42.57°S, 173.52°EOkarahia Sandstone — 42.60°S, 173.42°EOcala Limestone — 32.41°N, 83.64°WOcala Limestone — 30.30°N, 82.98°W

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The named rock units Aequipecten has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 79 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 179 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aequipecten and its relatives

Miocene

Where Aequipecten and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,257 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 285 sites for Aequipecten, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

141 references

Each of the 452 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. 129 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 content3

Picture of Aequipecten

Credit
Hans Hillewaert
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

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Specimen
Aequipecten exasperatus · USNM:IZ:USNM 846221

3D model

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Sketchfab
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Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itChlamydinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fischer 1886)