Hinnites

Hinnites is a genus of rock scallops, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.

Hinnites

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PectinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 204 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 129 ka.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 47 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 47 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 47 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 47 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 47 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 47 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 47 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesMiocene — about 18 of 47 occurrencesPliocene — about 11 of 47 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 47 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences226–218 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences210–201 Mya — about 1 occurrence201–193 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–161 Mya — about 1 occurrence161–153 Mya — about 3 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–129 Mya — about 4 occurrences129–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 9 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 14 occurrences205.7 Mya774 ka242 Mya0 Mya

47 occurrences of Hinnites on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

47 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

10 formations

Rifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°EKourtes — 35.20°N, 25.10°EModelo — 34.10°N, 118.44°WMergel and Kalk Zone — 47.02°N, 6.92°EZone de Pierre jaune — 47.05°N, 7.08°EMagyaregregy Conglomerate — 46.17°N, 18.25°EPinczow — 50.53°N, 20.53°EFels — 48.51°N, 15.74°ECoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°EBerchem — 51.29°N, 4.27°E

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The named rock units Hinnites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hinnites and its relatives

Miocene

Where Hinnites and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,200 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Hinnites, 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

34 references

Each of the 47 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. 22 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Hinnites

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hinnites 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPectinidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Defrance 1821)