Lyropecten pretiosus

Searched as Pecten miguelensis submiguelensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Lyropecten pretiosus as the accepted name.

Lyropecten pretiosus

via iDigBio · via iDigBio. 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
LyropectenPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lyropecten
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lyropecten
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lyropecten
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 3 of 20 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 17 of 20 occurrencesMiocene27–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27.8 Mya15.5 Mya

20 occurrences of Lyropecten pretiosus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

20 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

Vaqueros — 33.54°N, 117.78°WVaqueros — 33.64°N, 117.59°WVaqueros — 33.98°N, 120.09°WVaqueros — 34.04°N, 118.88°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.16°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.14°WVaqueros — 35.68°N, 120.93°WVaqueros — 35.30°N, 120.15°WVaqueros — 35.25°N, 120.06°WVaqueros — 35.78°N, 121.06°WVaqueros — 33.94°N, 120.06°WRincon — 34.04°N, 120.04°WIsidro — 26.32°N, 112.12°WIsidro — 26.17°N, 112.27°WYsidro — 26.15°N, 112.25°W

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The named rock units Lyropecten pretiosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Lyropecten pretiosus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lyropecten pretiosus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

120 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Lyropecten pretiosus, 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 20 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 Lyropecten pretiosus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Lyropecten pretiosus 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.

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What may have been alongside itLyropecten through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Loel and Corey 1932)