Heteropecten gryphus
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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 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
4 occurrences of Heteropecten gryphus 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
4 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Heteropecten gryphus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Heteropecten gryphus and its relatives
PermianWhere Heteropecten gryphus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Acanthopecten coloradoensis1 site
- Bakevellia1 site
- Celtoides unioniformis1 site
- Eocamptonectes asperatus1 site
- Eocamptonectes sculptilis1 site
- Heteropecten girtyi1 site
- Lyroschizodus oklahomensis1 site
- Myalina (Myalina) sinuata1 site
- Obliquipecten1 site
- Orthopinna sagitta1 site
- Procostatoria sexradiata1 site
- Pseudomonotis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Heteropecten gryphus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Permian and Eotriassic bivalves of the middle Rockies2
- The first paleontological evidence of the presence of Wordian bivalves in the Middle Permian of the Omolon Massif (northeast Russia)1
- Late Paleozoic pelecypods: Pectinacea1
Each of the 4 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 Heteropecten gryphus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Heteropecten gryphus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heteropecten gryphus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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)