Argopecten purpuratus

Argopecten purpuratus is an edible marine species of saltwater shellfish, a bivalve mollusc in the family Pectinidae.

Argopecten purpuratus

Lamarck, 1819 · CC0 · 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
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 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesPliocene — about 12 of 29 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 17 of 29 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 29 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.9–2.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.7–2.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.5–2.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.3–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–1.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.8–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.2–972 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.6 Mya129 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

29 occurrences of Argopecten purpuratus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

29 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

11 formations

Estratos de Caldera — 27.22°S, 70.88°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.27°S, 70.91°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.13°S, 70.92°WMancora Tablazo — 4.32°S, 81.25°WMancora Tablazo — 4.58°S, 81.27°WPico — 34.32°N, 118.68°WPico — 34.42°N, 118.67°WPico — 34.38°N, 118.61°WPampa del Palo terrace — 17.58°S, 71.17°WBahía Inglesa — 27.11°S, 70.53°WSan Juan Terrace — 15.33°S, 75.17°WLa Portada — 23.40°S, 70.53°WPongo — 15.53°S, 74.73°WFormación Coquimbo — 29.08°S, 71.46°WDepósitos Litorales — 28.43°S, 71.18°WSan Diego — 34.04°N, 118.53°W

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The named rock units Argopecten purpuratus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Argopecten purpuratus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Argopecten purpuratus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

184 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Argopecten purpuratus, 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

16 references

Each of the 29 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. 4 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 content1

Picture of Argopecten purpuratus

Credit
Lamarck, 1819
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Argopecten purpuratus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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 PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1819)