Pterinopecten

Pterinopecten

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PterinopectinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pectinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 173 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 440.5 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 148 occurrencesSilurian — about 12 of 148 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 116 of 148 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 17 of 148 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 148 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 148 occurrences444–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–431 Mya — about 1 occurrence431–425 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences425–418 Mya — about 12 occurrences418–412 Mya — about 6 occurrences412–405 Mya — about 3 occurrences405–399 Mya — about 4 occurrences399–393 Mya — about 7 occurrences393–386 Mya — about 29 occurrences386–380 Mya — about 45 occurrences380–373 Mya — about 5 occurrences373–367 Mya — about 2 occurrences367–360 Mya — about 11 occurrences360–354 Mya — about 4 occurrences354–347 Mya — about 2 occurrences347–341 Mya — about 1 occurrence341–334 Mya — about 7 occurrences334–328 Mya — about 4 occurrences328–321 Mya — about 1 occurrence321–315 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences315–309 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences309–302 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences263–257 Mya — about 1 occurrence257–250 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences432.9 Mya259.857 Mya444 Mya250 Mya

148 occurrences of Pterinopecten on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

148 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

49 formations

Moscow — 42.71°N, 78.94°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 78.68°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.01°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.57°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.46°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 74.58°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.95°WLudlowville — 42.96°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.84°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 76.99°WLudlowville — 42.94°N, 78.13°WGeneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WGeneseo — 42.44°N, 74.54°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.43°WGeneseo — 42.62°N, 75.41°WGeneseo — 42.57°N, 75.25°WTully — 42.79°N, 75.80°WTully — 42.61°N, 74.98°WTully — 42.54°N, 74.81°WMahantango — 40.50°N, 77.25°WMahantango — 40.05°N, 77.52°WMahantango — 40.33°N, 76.92°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.17°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 76.15°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 76.14°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 75.89°WSkaneateles — 42.87°N, 77.87°WPozary — 49.93°N, 14.18°EPozary — 50.08°N, 14.47°EPozary — 49.90°N, 14.02°EErtang — 23.60°N, 109.65°EGydo — 33.52°S, 24.74°ESelscheid — 51.17°N, 7.92°ESelscheid — 51.23°N, 7.82°ESelscheid — 51.23°N, 7.97°EMeads Creek equivalent — 42.70°N, 74.93°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WMarcellus — 42.51°N, 74.05°WMarcellus — 41.97°N, 74.00°WParadise — 31.93°N, 109.22°WFord — 54.89°N, 1.41°WPilton — 51.08°N, 4.05°WRongxian — 25.33°N, 110.26°EBaird — 40.79°N, 122.30°WBaird — 40.97°N, 122.21°WRhinestreet — 42.09°N, 76.87°WDalhousie Shale — 48.07°N, 66.37°WBeers Hill equivalent — 42.70°N, 74.93°WAmherstburg — 43.98°N, 81.28°WYingtang — 24.07°N, 109.88°ESecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°W

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The named rock units Pterinopecten has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pterinopecten and its relatives

Devonian

Where Pterinopecten and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,268 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 123 sites for Pterinopecten, 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

57 references

Each of the 148 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. 45 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 content1

Picture of Pterinopecten

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pterinopecten 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 itPterinopectinidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1883)