Aequipecten paranensis

Aequipecten paranensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AequipectenPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Aequipecten
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Aequipecten
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Aequipecten
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 8.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesMiocene — about 33 of 33 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 33 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20.45 Mya11.63 Mya23.5 Mya0 Mya

33 occurrences of Aequipecten paranensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

33 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

3 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°WEntre Rios — 33.72°S, 59.25°WMonte Leon — 49.53°S, 68.36°W

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The named rock units Aequipecten paranensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aequipecten paranensis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Aequipecten paranensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

83 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Aequipecten paranensis, 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

3 references

Each of the 33 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 Aequipecten paranensis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aequipecten paranensis 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 itAequipecten through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1842)