Heteropecten girtyi

No picture of Heteropecten girtyi 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 Heteropecten girtyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeteropectenPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pectinida
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 286 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Permian — about 10 of 10 occurrencesPermian287–286 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274.4 Mya259.857 Mya286.6 Mya253.5 Mya

10 occurrences of Heteropecten girtyi 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

10 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

6 formations

Park City — 42.97°N, 106.78°WPark City — 42.28°N, 110.58°WPark City — 40.92°N, 109.62°WLongtan — 30.30°N, 106.85°ELongtan — 28.30°N, 112.55°EOmolon — 63.10°N, 159.25°EOmolon — 62.78°N, 159.36°EDog Creek — 33.37°N, 100.35°WWord — 30.36°N, 103.23°WKaibab — 36.39°N, 112.63°W

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The named rock units Heteropecten girtyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Heteropecten girtyi and its relatives

Permian

Where Heteropecten girtyi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

70 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Heteropecten girtyi, 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

7 references

Each of the 10 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

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No picture of Heteropecten girtyi 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 Heteropecten girtyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Heteropecten girtyi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itHeteropecten through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Newell 1938)