Mizuhopecten yessoensis

Mizuhopecten yessoensis is a species of marine bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae, the scallops. Its name Yesso/Ezo refers to its being found north of Japan.

Mizuhopecten yessoensis

A. C. Tatarinov · 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
MizuhopectenPBDB
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 2.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPliocene — about 5 of 5 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences5.5–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–5.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.2–5.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.1–5.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.0–4.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.8–4.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.7–4.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.6–4.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.1–4.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–3.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–3.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.2–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.0–2.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.83 Mya2.08 Mya

5 occurrences of Mizuhopecten yessoensis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

5 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

4 formations

Enemtenskaya — 58.00°N, 158.00°ETogawa — 40.43°N, 141.33°EPomyrskaya — 54.16°N, 142.56°ETentokuji — 39.75°N, 140.41°E

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The named rock units Mizuhopecten yessoensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mizuhopecten yessoensis and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Mizuhopecten yessoensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

76 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Mizuhopecten yessoensis, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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 content2

Picture of Mizuhopecten yessoensis

Credit
A. C. Tatarinov
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itMizuhopecten through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jay 1857)