Pecten elixatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PectenPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pecten
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pecten
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pecten
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
4 occurrences of Pecten elixatus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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 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
3 formations
- Santee Limestone Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Trent Formation1
- Belgrade Formation1
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The named rock units Pecten elixatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pecten elixatus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pecten elixatus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Rebeccapecten trentensis2 sites
- Anadara (Sectiarca) floridana1 site
- Anomia onslowensis1 site
- Anomia ruffini1 site
- Antigona lamellacea1 site
- Arca silverdalensis1 site
- Astarte claytonrayi1 site
- Astarte onslowensis1 site
- Bicorbula idonea1 site
- Busycon spiniger onslowensis1 site
- Calyptraea trochiformis1 site
- Cardium midyetti1 site
- Chione (Chamelea) spada1 site
- Conus postalveatus1 site
- Coralliophila1 site
- Corbula burnsi1 site
- Crassatellites mississippiensis silverdalensis1 site
- Crepidula fornicata1 site
- Crepidula plana1 site
- Crucibulum (Dispotaea) constrictum1 site
- Cunearca silverdalensis1 site
- Cyclocardia granulata1 site
- Cyclocardia trentensis1 site
- Diadora chipolana caroliniana n. ssp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pecten elixatus, 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- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda2
- Additions to the Fauna of the Trent Marl of North Carolina1
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Castle Hayne and Trent Marls in North Carolina1
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 content0
No picture of Pecten elixatus 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 Pecten elixatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pecten elixatus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itPecten through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1846