Pecten (Chlamys) subalpinus

Pecten subalpinus Parona, 1890, a relative of Pecten (Chlamys) subalpinus — not Pecten (Chlamys) subalpinus itself

Not Pecten (Chlamys) subalpinus. This is Pecten subalpinus Parona, 1890, a relative — both are Pectinidae.

via GBIF · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
ChlamysPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Chlamys
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Chlamys
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chlamys
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 86 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrences201–198 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences198–195 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences195–191 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences192.9 Mya106.3 Mya201 Mya99 Mya

4 occurrences of Pecten (Chlamys) subalpinus on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

4 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

3 formations

Denton — 33.15°N, 97.23°WDenton — 33.35°N, 97.18°WDenison — 32.79°N, 97.32°WSaltrio — 45.88°N, 8.92°E

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The named rock units Pecten (Chlamys) subalpinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pecten (Chlamys) subalpinus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Pecten (Chlamys) subalpinus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

84 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pecten (Chlamys) subalpinus, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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 content2

Picture of Pecten subalpinus Parona, 1890

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
chlamys pecten hericeus · MST:PALEO:MST-SP-6377

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.

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What may have been alongside itChlamys through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Parona 1890