Antillipecten antillarum

Antillipecten is a monotypic genus of bivalves in the family Pectinidae. The only species is Antillipecten antillarum, also known as the Antillean scallop. It can be found in Caribbean waters, ranging from southern Florida to the West Indies and Bermuda.

Antillipecten antillarum

Récluz, 1853 · CC0 · 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
AntillipectenPBDB
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 4.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 129 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 8 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 8 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence404 ka–0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.333 Mya774 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

8 occurrences of Antillipecten antillarum on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

8 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

Bowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.27°WMao — 19.53°N, 71.18°W

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The named rock units Antillipecten antillarum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Antillipecten antillarum and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Antillipecten antillarum and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

815 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Antillipecten antillarum, 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

Each of the 8 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 content1

Picture of Antillipecten antillarum

Credit
Récluz, 1853
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Antillipecten antillarum 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Récluz 1853)