Arca perpectinata

No picture of Arca perpectinata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Arca perpectinata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArcaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Arca
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Arca
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Arca
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae

Time the record covers

At most 2.7 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 264.28 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Permian — about 1 of 1 occurrencePermian267–267 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267–267 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267–267 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267.4 Mya263.78 Mya

1 occurrence of Arca perpectinata 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

1 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.

Arca perpectinata and its relatives

Permian

Where Arca perpectinata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

149 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Arca perpectinata, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Arca perpectinata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Arca perpectinata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Arca perpectinata 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 itArca through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Gregorio 1930