Pectinidae

Scallop is a common name that encompasses various species of marine bivalve molluscs in the taxonomic family Pectinidae, the scallops. However, this common name is also sometimes applied to species in other closely related families within the superfamily Pectinoidea, which also includes the thorny oysters.

Pectinidae

Rachael Norris and Marina Freudzon / Mayscallop at en.wikipedia · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
Also called
scallopPBDB
Sits inside
PectinoidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 382 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 24 of 12000 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 15 of 12000 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 8 of 12000 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 92 of 12000 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 217 of 12000 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 585 of 12000 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1266 of 12000 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 850 of 12000 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 778 of 12000 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 296 of 12000 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1017 of 12000 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 93 of 12000 occurrencesEocene — about 815 of 12000 occurrencesOligocene — about 624 of 12000 occurrencesMiocene — about 2951 of 12000 occurrencesPliocene — about 1435 of 12000 occurrencesPleistocene — about 870 of 12000 occurrences401–388 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences388–375 Mya — about 23 occurrences375–361 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences361–348 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences348–334 Mya — about 5 occurrences334–321 Mya — about 5 occurrences321–308 Mya — about 3 occurrences308–294 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences294–281 Mya — about 2 occurrences281–268 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences268–254 Mya — about 4 occurrences254–241 Mya — about 247 occurrences241–227 Mya — about 251 occurrences227–214 Mya — about 128 occurrences214–201 Mya — about 312 occurrences201–187 Mya — about 686 occurrences187–174 Mya — about 548 occurrences174–161 Mya — about 883 occurrences161–147 Mya — about 604 occurrences147–134 Mya — about 224 occurrences134–120 Mya — about 53 occurrences120–107 Mya — about 79 occurrences107–94 Mya — about 151 occurrences94–80 Mya — about 117 occurrences80–67 Mya — about 719 occurrences67–54 Mya — about 229 occurrences54–40 Mya — about 293 occurrences40–27 Mya — about 839 occurrences27–13 Mya — about 1579 occurrences13–0 Mya — about 4013 occurrences382.31 Mya11.7 ka401 Mya0 Mya

12,000+ occurrences of Pectinidae on record. 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

12,000 occurrences read

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. The read hit its cap, so every figure above is a floor and the shares are of the occurrences read. More on what this infers.

Found in

at least 1240 formations

Gurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.25°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.92°WGurabo — 19.92°N, 71.57°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.30°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 19.37°N, 70.76°WKap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.85°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.89°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WGatun — 9.12°N, 80.33°WChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°ECarmel — 37.74°N, 113.21°WCarmel — 37.64°N, 113.37°WCarmel — 37.68°N, 113.06°WCarmel — 37.70°N, 113.05°WCarmel — 37.76°N, 112.97°WCarmel — 37.59°N, 113.06°WCarmel — 37.46°N, 113.79°WCarmel — 37.54°N, 113.12°WCarmel — 37.48°N, 113.17°WCarmel — 37.26°N, 112.85°WCarmel — 37.41°N, 113.08°WCarmel — 37.37°N, 112.95°WCarmel — 37.35°N, 113.33°WCarmel — 37.21°N, 113.30°WCarmel — 37.27°N, 113.41°WCarmel — 37.25°N, 113.52°WCarmel — 37.46°N, 113.71°WCarmel — 37.32°N, 113.85°WCarmel — 39.19°N, 110.67°WCarmel — 39.12°N, 110.75°WCarmel — 39.12°N, 110.75°WCarmel — 39.12°N, 110.86°WCarmel — 38.98°N, 110.88°WCarmel — 38.87°N, 110.91°WCarmel — 38.85°N, 110.90°WCarmel — 38.27°N, 110.51°WCarmel — 39.13°N, 110.47°WCarmel — 39.10°N, 110.44°WCarmel — 39.04°N, 110.40°WCarmel — 38.93°N, 110.42°WCarmel — 38.76°N, 110.47°WCarmel — 38.72°N, 110.54°WCarmel — 38.70°N, 110.56°WCarmel — 38.59°N, 110.78°WCarmel — 38.33°N, 111.52°WCarmel — 38.22°N, 111.15°WCarmel — 38.10°N, 111.92°WCarmel — 37.28°N, 112.51°WCarmel — 37.31°N, 112.59°WCarmel — 37.22°N, 112.68°WCarmel — 37.24°N, 112.79°WCarmel — 37.25°N, 112.90°WDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 24.89°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 22.62°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 22.53°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 22.50°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 21.88°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 25.17°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.53°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.92°N, 44.00°EDhruma — 25.78°N, 45.25°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 23.08°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 22.83°N, 46.83°EDhruma — 21.88°N, 45.83°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.70°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.97°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 26.20°N, 44.83°EDhruma — 26.33°N, 44.83°ECercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.57°N, 71.25°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WCercado — 19.40°N, 70.72°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.32°WMoodys Branch — 31.77°N, 88.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.50°N, 87.80°WMoodys Branch — 31.26°N, 86.77°WMoodys Branch — 31.31°N, 86.48°WMoodys Branch — 31.03°N, 85.86°WMoodys Branch — 31.03°N, 85.85°WMoodys Branch — 31.55°N, 87.58°WMoodys Branch — 31.14°N, 87.94°WMoodys Branch — 30.71°N, 84.86°WMoodys Branch — 32.70°N, 83.56°WMoodys Branch — 31.10°N, 86.09°WMoodys Branch — 31.57°N, 88.04°WMoodys Branch — 31.54°N, 87.52°WMoodys Branch — 30.90°N, 84.58°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 35.01°N, 90.79°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WMoodys Branch — 31.54°N, 88.06°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WPrairie Bluff — 34.51°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 34.23°N, 89.00°WPrairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.50°N, 88.81°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 32.73°N, 88.30°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.63°N, 88.22°WPrairie Bluff — 32.57°N, 88.14°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.31°N, 87.80°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 86.78°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 85.92°WPuerto Madryn — 42.50°S, 64.25°WPuerto Madryn — 42.50°S, 64.50°WPuerto Madryn — 42.84°S, 64.88°WPuerto Madryn — 42.67°S, 64.98°WPuerto Madryn — 42.58°S, 64.59°WPuerto Madryn — 42.97°S, 64.31°WPuerto Madryn — 41.20°S, 69.15°WPuerto Madryn — 42.42°S, 64.30°WPuerto Madryn — 42.58°S, 64.32°WPuerto Madryn — 42.07°S, 63.75°WPuerto Madryn — 42.42°S, 64.48°WPuerto Madryn — 44.50°S, 65.27°WJagüel — 36.55°S, 68.15°WJagüel — 38.13°S, 68.41°WJagüel — 34.68°S, 69.57°WJagüel — 34.93°S, 69.67°WJagüel — 34.90°S, 69.53°WJagüel — 35.68°S, 69.67°WJagüel — 35.83°S, 69.67°WJagüel — 36.20°S, 69.50°WJagüel — 34.73°S, 69.65°WJagüel — 35.43°S, 69.73°WJagüel — 35.85°S, 69.80°WProvidence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.97°N, 86.00°WProvidence — 31.86°N, 85.95°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.94°N, 86.11°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.78°N, 85.14°WProvidence — 31.75°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.80°N, 85.00°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WCastle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.65°WCastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.86°WCastle Hayne — 34.29°N, 77.92°WCastle Hayne — 34.83°N, 78.02°WCastle Hayne — 35.36°N, 77.32°WCastle Hayne — 34.66°N, 77.70°WCastle Hayne — 34.90°N, 78.05°WCastle Hayne — 34.83°N, 77.82°WCastle Hayne — 34.92°N, 77.77°WCastle Hayne — 35.38°N, 77.99°WCastle Hayne — 35.32°N, 77.33°WCastle Hayne — 35.05°N, 77.75°WCastle Hayne — 35.01°N, 77.51°WCastle Hayne — 35.00°N, 77.00°WCastle Hayne — 34.90°N, 77.55°WCastle Hayne — 34.75°N, 77.43°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WCastle Hayne — 35.11°N, 77.04°WCastle Hayne — 35.06°N, 77.83°WCastle Hayne — 35.31°N, 79.01°WCastle Hayne — 35.22°N, 77.44°WCastle Hayne — 34.55°N, 77.93°WCastle Hayne — 35.36°N, 77.38°WCastle Hayne — 35.24°N, 77.20°WCastle Hayne — 35.01°N, 77.57°WCastle Hayne — 34.36°N, 77.82°WTwin Creek Limestone — 44.00°N, 108.00°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.10°N, 110.60°WTwin Creek Limestone — 43.63°N, 111.28°WTwin Creek Limestone — 43.43°N, 111.79°WTwin Creek Limestone — 43.23°N, 111.27°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.87°N, 111.17°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.38°N, 111.22°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.73°N, 110.90°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.61°N, 110.89°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.35°N, 110.79°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.32°N, 110.70°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.17°N, 110.83°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.10°N, 110.84°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.94°N, 110.86°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.83°N, 110.87°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.92°N, 111.25°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.07°N, 111.55°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.67°N, 111.58°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.51°N, 111.38°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.09°N, 111.38°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.00°N, 111.49°WTwin Creek Limestone — 43.15°N, 112.09°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.43°N, 111.26°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.83°N, 110.95°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.99°N, 111.19°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.38°N, 111.21°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.51°N, 110.51°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.20°N, 110.61°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.95°N, 110.45°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.95°N, 110.46°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.95°N, 110.45°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.42°N, 110.80°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.43°N, 110.72°WTwin Creek Limestone — 40.52°N, 110.43°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.40°N, 111.02°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.34°N, 110.50°WTwin Creek Limestone — 43.27°N, 111.30°WTwin Creek Limestone — 43.18°N, 111.11°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.44°N, 110.57°WTwin Creek Limestone — 41.06°N, 111.54°WTwin Creek Limestone — 42.67°N, 111.02°WTwin Creek Limestone — 43.66°N, 111.33°WRoca — 37.67°S, 67.50°WRoca — 35.47°S, 69.60°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.85°WRoca — 37.54°S, 69.87°WRoca — 37.55°S, 69.83°WRoca — 34.68°S, 69.57°WRoca — 34.93°S, 69.67°WRoca — 35.85°S, 69.80°WRoca — 34.60°S, 69.72°WRoca — 35.52°S, 69.72°WRoca — 35.68°S, 69.67°WRoca — 35.43°S, 69.73°WRoca — 35.90°S, 69.53°WRoca — 34.73°S, 69.65°WYorktown — 37.22°N, 76.93°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.96°WYorktown — 36.44°N, 77.10°WYorktown — 35.38°N, 77.99°WYorktown — 35.51°N, 77.62°WYorktown — 35.54°N, 77.67°WYorktown — 37.51°N, 77.21°WYorktown — 37.29°N, 77.25°WYorktown — 37.10°N, 76.39°WYorktown — 37.24°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 37.64°N, 76.57°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WYorktown — 37.17°N, 76.77°WYorktown — 37.27°N, 76.57°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 37.21°N, 76.69°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WYorktown — 37.15°N, 76.74°WYorktown — 35.15°N, 77.14°WCaloosahatchee — 25.97°N, 81.73°WCaloosahatchee — 25.95°N, 81.36°WCaloosahatchee — 25.91°N, 81.36°WCaloosahatchee — 25.75°N, 81.94°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.70°N, 80.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.34°N, 80.86°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.79°N, 81.30°WCaloosahatchee — 26.68°N, 80.28°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.52°N, 82.03°WPico — 34.48°N, 119.32°WPico — 33.94°N, 117.89°WPico — 34.37°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.74°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.51°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.38°N, 119.07°WPico — 34.33°N, 119.08°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.22°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.21°WTemblor — 36.34°N, 120.36°WTemblor — 36.37°N, 120.29°WTemblor — 35.50°N, 119.78°WTemblor — 36.00°N, 120.51°WTemblor — 35.88°N, 120.10°WTemblor — 35.71°N, 119.98°WTemblor — 35.42°N, 119.85°WTemblor — 35.47°N, 119.91°WTemblor — 35.40°N, 119.82°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.84°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.82°N, 120.45°WCook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 31.75°N, 92.97°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.00°N, 88.72°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 31.84°N, 88.25°WCook Mountain — 31.82°N, 88.09°WCook Mountain — 31.54°N, 87.52°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 93.57°WCook Mountain — 31.43°N, 93.85°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 95.51°WCook Mountain — 31.93°N, 92.64°WCook Mountain — 32.36°N, 92.98°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.48°N, 90.80°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 31.43°N, 87.57°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 31.57°N, 88.04°WBarahona Limestone — 41.93°N, 3.15°WBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WTrigonia clavellata — 50.80°N, 2.28°WTrigonia clavellata — 50.60°N, 2.45°W

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The named rock units Pectinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. The read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 1,216 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3,335 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

1,129 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,313 sites for Pectinidae, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

at least 1,309 references

Each of the 12,000 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. That read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 1,297 further references are not listed. 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 Pectinidae

Credit
Rachael Norris and Marina Freudzon / Mayscallop at en.wikipedia
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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