Chesapecten (Chesapecten) covepointensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Chesapecten (Chesapecten)PBDB
- 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 most 8.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 13.82 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Chesapecten (Chesapecten) covepointensis 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
5 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
- St Marys Formation · Chesapeake Group4
- Choptank Formation · Chesapeake Group1
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The named rock units Chesapecten (Chesapecten) covepointensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chesapecten (Chesapecten) covepointensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Chesapecten (Chesapecten) covepointensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Turritella plebeia plebeia4 sites
- Clementia (Clementia) inoceriformis3 sites
- Dallarca idonea3 sites
- Panopea goldfussii3 sites
- Busycotyphus coronatum2 sites
- Busycotyphus rugosum2 sites
- Chesacardium2 sites
- Chesacardium laqueatum eschelmani2 sites
- Dosinia acetabulum thori2 sites
- Laevihastula simplex2 sites
- Mactrodesma subponderosa2 sites
- Mercenaria2 sites
- Mercenaria cuneata2 sites
- Nassarius (Tritiaria) peralta2 sites
- Spisula subcuneata2 sites
- Stewartia anodonta2 sites
- Arossia1 site
- Arossia bohaska1 site
- Arossia newmani1 site
- Buccinofusus chesapeakensis1 site
- Bulliopsis marylandica1 site
- Busycon1 site
- Busycotypus coronatum1 site
- Busycotypus rugosum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Chesapecten (Chesapecten) covepointensis, 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 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Chesapecten (Chesapecten) covepointensis 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 Chesapecten (Chesapecten) covepointensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chesapecten (Chesapecten) covepointensis 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 itChesapecten (Chesapecten) through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ward 1992