Janupecten
No picture of Janupecten 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 Janupecten, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PectinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pectinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Janupecten on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
6 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
3 formations
- Kokoamu Greensand Formation · Otiake Group4
- Otekaike Limestone Formation · Otiake Group1
- Torehina Formation1
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The named rock units Janupecten has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Janupecten and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Janupecten and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Asteroidea indet.1 site
- Athlopecten1 site
- Bryozoa indet.1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
- Eupatagus rostratus zitteli1 site
- Goniocidaris1 site
- Hemipatagus tuberculatus1 site
- Lentipecten hochstetteri1 site
- Lima1 site
- Magasella sanguinea1 site
- Mesopeplum1 site
- Myliobatis plicatilis1 site
- Neothyris1 site
- Nielsenicrinus waiteteensis1 site
- Striatolamia macrota1 site
- Tasmanobalanus1 site
- Tumidocarcinus tumidus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Janupecten, 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
2 references- The Geology of the Waitaki Subdivision5
- Oligocene paleontology and palaeoecology of Waitete Bay, Northern Coromandel Peninsula1
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Janupecten 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 Janupecten, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Janupecten 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPectinidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marwick 1928