Pecten maxima

Pecten maxima

le_peton · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
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 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesPliocene — about 8 of 17 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 6 of 17 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 3 of 17 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.6 Mya11.7 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

17 occurrences of Pecten maxima on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

17 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

Red Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.35°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°ELindos Acropolis — 35.92°N, 27.83°EWexford Gravels — 52.43°N, 6.33°W

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The named rock units Pecten maxima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pecten maxima and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Pecten maxima and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

520 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Pecten maxima, 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

12 references

Each of the 17 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 Pecten maxima

Source
GBIF
Credit
le_peton
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)