Delectopecten randolphi
No picture of Delectopecten randolphi 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 Delectopecten randolphi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DelectopectenPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Delectopecten
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Delectopecten
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Delectopecten
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At most 3.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 1.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Delectopecten randolphi on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene79%
- Pleistocene22%
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
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The named rock units Delectopecten randolphi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Delectopecten randolphi and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Delectopecten randolphi and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
112 taxa- Fusitriton oregonensis2 sites
- Acesta (Acesta) hamlini1 site
- Acmaea1 site
- Acmaea funiculata1 site
- Acmaea mitra1 site
- Admete1 site
- Alia carinata1 site
- Amphissa reticulata1 site
- Arca (Arca) sisquocensis1 site
- Archivesica gibbera1 site
- Atrimitra idae1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Boreotrophon macouni1 site
- Boreotrophon multicostatus1 site
- Boreotrophon stuarti1 site
- Boreotrophon triangulatus1 site
- Buccinum1 site
- Californiconus californicus1 site
- Calliostoma grantianum1 site
- Calyptraea (Trochita) trochiformis1 site
- Calyptraea fastigiata1 site
- Carcharhinus1 site
- Carcharodon carcharias1 site
- Chama exogyra1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Delectopecten randolphi, 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
2 references- A Late Pliocene macrofossil fauna of Newport Beach, Orange County, California1
- Lower Pliocene mollusks and echinoids from the Los Angeles Basin, California, and their inferred environment1
Each of the 2 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 content0
No picture of Delectopecten randolphi 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 Delectopecten randolphi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Delectopecten randolphi 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 itDelectopecten through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1897)