Palaeopecten
No picture of Palaeopecten 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 Palaeopecten, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeiopectinidaePBDB
- 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 5.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 421.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
6 occurrences of Palaeopecten on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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- Silurian100%
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
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The named rock units Palaeopecten 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.
Palaeopecten and its relatives
SilurianWhere Palaeopecten and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
135 taxa- Calymene2 sites
- Craniops2 sites
- Howellella2 sites
- Isorthis2 sites
- Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula2 sites
- Protochonetes ludloviensis2 sites
- Salopina conservatrix2 sites
- Acaste1 site
- Acaste downingiae1 site
- Actinopteria1 site
- Algerina algena1 site
- Allonema1 site
- Ambonychia volitans1 site
- Amphicoelia pojetana1 site
- Amphistrophiella funiculata1 site
- Anoigmaichnus soervensis n. sp.1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Aulopora amica1 site
- Beyrichia1 site
- Birkeniida1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Butovicella migrans1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Cardiola donigala1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Palaeopecten, 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- A new bivalve community from the lower Ludlow of the Prague Basin (Perunica, Bohemia)2
- Animal and plant communities of Podolia1
- Calef and Hancock's Ludlow communities in Wales and the Welsh Borderland1
- Locality 7:4 Ohesaare Cliff1
- The Silurian rocks of the Tortworth Inlier, Gloucestershire1
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. 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 Palaeopecten 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 Palaeopecten, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaeopecten 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 itLeiopectinidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Williams 1913