Carolinapecten eboreus

Carolinapecten eboreus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
CarolinapectenPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pectinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 55 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 55 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 32 of 55 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 20 of 55 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 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 13 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

55 occurrences of Carolinapecten eboreus 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

55 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

9 formations

Yorktown — 35.51°N, 77.62°WYorktown — 35.38°N, 77.99°WYorktown — 35.54°N, 77.67°WYorktown — 37.24°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 37.64°N, 76.57°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.96°WYorktown — 35.15°N, 77.14°WWaccamaw — 34.23°N, 77.94°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.50°N, 79.11°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.63°N, 78.57°WWaccamaw — 33.90°N, 78.84°WWaccamaw — 33.97°N, 78.39°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 32.98°N, 79.89°WDuplin — 34.50°N, 79.11°WDuplin — 34.62°N, 79.01°WDuplin — 35.00°N, 78.32°WDuplin — 35.00°N, 78.09°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WDuplin — 34.30°N, 79.84°WBear Bluff — 34.32°N, 78.52°WBear Bluff — 33.90°N, 78.84°WBear Bluff — 26.76°N, 81.44°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WTamiami — 26.67°N, 80.94°WTamiami — 26.64°N, 80.94°WTamiami — 26.37°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 26.14°N, 80.85°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WKirkwood — 39.36°N, 74.42°WKirkwood — 39.00°N, 75.12°WChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WChowan RIver — 36.05°N, 76.73°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°W

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The named rock units Carolinapecten eboreus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carolinapecten eboreus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Carolinapecten eboreus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

574 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Carolinapecten eboreus, 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

14 references

Each of the 55 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. 2 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 Carolinapecten eboreus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCarolinapecten through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1833)