Vertipecten kernensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VertipectenPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pectinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 13.82 Mya.
15 occurrences of Vertipecten kernensis 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
15 occurrencesThese 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
- Pleito Formation · San Lorenzo Group6
- Jewett Formation4
- Temblor Formation3
- Topanga Canyon Formation · Topanga Group2
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The named rock units Vertipecten kernensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Vertipecten kernensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Vertipecten kernensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
145 taxa- Dosinia (Dosinia) whitneyi4 sites
- Thais (Nucella) packi4 sites
- Agasoma acuminatum3 sites
- Bruclarkia gravida3 sites
- Crenomytilus mathewsoni3 sites
- Crepidula princeps3 sites
- Epitonium (Cirsotrema) clallamense3 sites
- Ficus (Trophosycon) kerniana3 sites
- Balanus2 sites
- Bruclarkia yaquinana2 sites
- Cancellaria galei2 sites
- Clementia conradiana2 sites
- Macrocallista pittsburgensis2 sites
- Macrochlamis magnolia2 sites
- Megasurcula condonana2 sites
- Natica recluziana2 sites
- Neverita (Glossaulax) andersoni2 sites
- Phygraea lincolnensis2 sites
- Priscofusus geniculus2 sites
- Priscofusus medialis2 sites
- Securella cryptolineata2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) shumardi1 site
- Alopias exigua1 site
- Alopias latidens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Vertipecten kernensis, 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- The San Lorenzo Group of the San Emigdio region, California6
- Cenozoic giant pectinids from California and the Tertiary Caribbean Province; Lyropecten, "Macrochlamis," Vertipecten, and Nodipecten species5
- Geology of the eastern part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California2
- Geology of Reef Ridge Coalinga district California1
- The Neocene deposits of Kern River, California, and the Temblor Basin1
Each of the 15 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 Vertipecten kernensis 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 Vertipecten kernensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vertipecten kernensis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itVertipecten through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hertlein 1925)