Somapecten

No picture of Somapecten was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Somapecten, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EntoliidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Entoliidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Entoliidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 7 of 9 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 9 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous185–183 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–145 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182.9 Mya149.2 Mya185 Mya125 Mya

9 occurrences of Somapecten on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

Yatova — 40.98°N, 0.62°WNakanosawa — 37.83°N, 140.92°ECurrier — 49.70°N, 126.62°WKlo Tho — 15.98°N, 98.73°E

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The named rock units Somapecten has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Somapecten and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Somapecten and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

110 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Somapecten, 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

4 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. 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 content0

No picture of Somapecten was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Somapecten, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Somapecten 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 itEntoliidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.