Argopecten levicostatus

Argopecten levicostatus

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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 least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 45 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 38 of 45 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 45 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 45 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.8–8.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.9–8.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.1–7.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.2–6.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.4–5.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–2.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.9–2.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23.04 Mya3.6 Mya27.8 Mya2.1 Mya

45 occurrences of Argopecten levicostatus 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

45 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

10 formations

Gatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WUrumaco — 11.20°N, 70.26°WUrumaco — 11.00°N, 69.83°WChagres Sandstone — 9.15°N, 79.96°WChagres Sandstone — 9.27°N, 79.58°WSocorro — 10.83°N, 70.17°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WPunta Pelada — 9.95°N, 84.60°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WBanano — 9.66°N, 82.75°WValiente — 9.21°N, 82.11°WCaujarao — 11.45°N, 69.57°W

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The named rock units Argopecten levicostatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Argopecten levicostatus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Argopecten levicostatus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

332 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Argopecten levicostatus, 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

7 references

Each of the 45 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 Argopecten levicostatus

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

No 3D scan of Argopecten levicostatus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Toula 1909)