Lyropecten miguelensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LyropectenPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lyropecten
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lyropecten
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lyropecten
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 4.7 Mya.
42 occurrences of Lyropecten miguelensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
42 occurrencesThese 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 Lyropecten miguelensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lyropecten miguelensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Lyropecten miguelensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
163 taxa- Balanus18 sites
- Turritella ocoyana18 sites
- Califrapana vaquerosensis14 sites
- Anomia vaquerosensis11 sites
- Turritella inezana11 sites
- Clementia conradiana9 sites
- Macrochlamis magnolia9 sites
- Polinices (Neverita) reclusianus andersoni9 sites
- Calyptraea filosa8 sites
- Dallocardia vaquerosense8 sites
- Lucinoma acutilineata8 sites
- Lyropecten pretiosus8 sites
- Turritella temblorensis8 sites
- Vertipecten perrini8 sites
- Chlamys sespeensis7 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinella) merriami7 sites
- Calyptraea costellata6 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) richthofeni6 sites
- Crenomytilus expansus6 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana6 sites
- Hybolophus granti6 sites
- Ocenebra topangensis6 sites
- Panopea generosa6 sites
- Scaphander jugularis6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Lyropecten miguelensis, 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
8 references- The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California. I. Paleontology20
- Geology of the Northern Channel Islands13
- Cenozoic giant pectinids from California and the Tertiary Caribbean Province; Lyropecten, "Macrochlamis," Vertipecten, and Nodipecten species2
- Sirenian evolution in the North Pacific Ocean2
- Tertiary and Quaternary pectens of California2
- The chronologic and geolographic range of desmostylians1
- Haliotis koticki, a new species from the lower Miocene of California1
- Preliminary report on the paleontology of the Channel Islands, California1
Each of the 42 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 content1

Picture of Lyropecten miguelensis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLyropecten through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Arnold 1906)