Guizhoupecten cheni

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GuizhoupectenPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Streblochondriidae
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Streblochondriidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Streblochondriidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
8 occurrences of Guizhoupecten cheni on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
8 occurrences- Permian100%
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
6 formations
- Word Formation2
- Cherry Canyon Formation2
- Road Canyon Formation1
- Bell Canyon Formation1
- Hess Formation1
- Park City Formation1
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The named rock units Guizhoupecten cheni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Guizhoupecten cheni and its relatives
PermianWhere Guizhoupecten cheni and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
433 taxa- Stenoscisma5 sites
- Derbyia texta4 sites
- Eocamptonectes papillatus4 sites
- Euphemites batteni4 sites
- Liosotella wordensis4 sites
- Pernopecten yini4 sites
- Prospondylus acinetus4 sites
- Reticulariina4 sites
- Acanthopecten coloradoensis3 sites
- Ananias labrectus3 sites
- Ananias permianus3 sites
- Annuliconcha dentata3 sites
- Apachella pseudostrigillata3 sites
- Apachella translirata3 sites
- Babylonites carinatus3 sites
- Cassianoides kingorum3 sites
- Composita parasulcata3 sites
- Cooperina inexpectata3 sites
- Cyrtorostra varicostata3 sites
- Delaria granti3 sites
- Derbyia3 sites
- Derbyia filosa3 sites
- Derbyia pannucia3 sites
- Dielasma3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Guizhoupecten cheni, 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- Permian scallops of the pectinacean family Streblochondriidae6
- Pectinoid bivalves of the Permian-Triassic crisis2
Each of the 8 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
Media content1

Picture of Guizhoupecten cheni
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- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Guizhoupecten cheni 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 itGuizhoupecten through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newell and Boyd 1985