Pecten subalternans

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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 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 233.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 239.48 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 8 of 9 occurrencesLate Triassic240–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences231–231 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237 Mya233.6 Mya240 Mya226.8 Mya

9 occurrences of Pecten subalternans on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

9 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

Cassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.54°N, 11.62°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.51°N, 11.76°ERaibl — 47.36°N, 11.48°ERaibl — 47.56°N, 12.21°ERaibl — 47.41°N, 11.12°ELunz — 47.32°N, 11.29°E

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

Pecten subalternans and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Pecten subalternans and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

684 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Pecten subalternans, 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 9 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Pecten subalternans was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 subalternans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pecten subalternans 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.

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What may have been alongside itPecten through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1849