Aequipecten opercularis

The queen scallop is a medium-sized species of scallop, an edible marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pectinidae, the scallops. It is found in the northeast Atlantic and is important in fisheries.

Aequipecten opercularis

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Sits inside
AequipectenPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Aequipecten
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Aequipecten
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Aequipecten
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 15 of 66 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 28 of 66 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 23 of 66 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 9 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

66 occurrences of Aequipecten opercularis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

66 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

18 formations

Berada — 51.10°N, 5.80°ERed Crag — 51.87°N, 1.29°ERed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ERed Crag — 52.03°N, 1.32°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°ECoralline Crag — 52.12°N, 1.54°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°ECoralline Crag — 52.12°N, 1.55°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.35°EMammaliferous Crag — 52.58°N, 1.38°WNorwich Crag — 52.58°N, 1.38°EBurgeschleinitz — 48.63°N, 15.78°EGavdos — 34.83°N, 24.08°EApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°EKourtes — 35.20°N, 25.10°ETielrode — 51.12°N, 4.18°EKattendijk — 51.25°N, 4.28°ELindos Acropolis — 35.92°N, 27.83°EMJI-lower yellowish marl — 35.48°N, 1.22°WMJS/Upper Yellowish Marl — 35.48°N, 1.22°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°EWexford Gravels — 52.43°N, 6.33°W

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The named rock units Aequipecten opercularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aequipecten opercularis and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Aequipecten opercularis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

1,307 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Aequipecten opercularis, 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

24 references

Each of the 66 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. 12 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 Aequipecten opercularis

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution
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The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itAequipecten through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)