Argopecten deserti

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArgopectenPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Argopecten
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Argopecten
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Argopecten
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At most 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Argopecten deserti on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Argopecten deserti 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.
Argopecten deserti and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Argopecten deserti and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Argopecten deserti, and this reads all of them.
Entered from
3 references- 1940 E.W. Scripps cruise to the Gulf of California. Part II - Megascopic paleontology and marine stratigraphy3
- Reconnaissance of the geology and oil possibilities of Baja California, Mexico1
- Tertiary and Quaternary pectens of California1
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Argopecten deserti
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Argopecten deserti 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 itArgopecten through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1855)