Argopecten

Argopecten is a genus of saltwater clams, or scallops, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Pectinidae.

Argopecten

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Also called
calico scallopPBDB
Sits inside
PectinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 772 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 14 of 772 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 302 of 772 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 305 of 772 occurrencesPleistocene — about 144 of 772 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 7 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 8 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 9 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 9 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 13 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 47 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 47 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 70 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 118 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 176 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 119 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 115 occurrences27.3 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

772 occurrences of Argopecten 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

772 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

101 formations

Gurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.92°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.30°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.37°N, 70.76°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.57°N, 71.25°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.17°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.42°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.51°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.85°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WSan Marcos — 26.00°N, 111.14°WSan Marcos — 27.10°N, 113.75°WSan Marcos — 27.07°N, 111.98°WSan Marcos — 26.02°N, 111.35°WSan Marcos — 27.08°N, 112.05°WCaloosahatchee — 25.97°N, 81.73°WCaloosahatchee — 25.95°N, 81.36°WCaloosahatchee — 25.91°N, 81.36°WCaloosahatchee — 25.75°N, 81.94°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WPirabas — 1.00°S, 48.00°WPirabas — 1.21°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 1.23°S, 47.40°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 2.58°S, 43.38°WPirabas — 1.66°S, 45.37°WPirabas — 2.88°S, 41.67°WPirabas — 3.09°S, 41.78°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WSalada — 24.82°N, 111.73°WSalada — 26.00°N, 111.14°WSalada — 23.23°N, 109.78°WSalada — 27.70°N, 114.90°WSalada — 27.75°N, 114.25°WChagres Sandstone — 9.15°N, 79.96°WChagres Sandstone — 8.85°N, 81.70°WChagres Sandstone — 9.30°N, 79.93°WChagres Sandstone — 9.27°N, 79.58°WChagres Sandstone — 9.33°N, 80.00°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WInfierno — 27.28°N, 112.25°WWare — 11.91°N, 71.28°WWare — 11.96°N, 71.28°WWare — 11.82°N, 71.41°WTirabuzon — 27.36°N, 112.29°WTirabuzon — 27.33°N, 112.27°WPamlico — 38.55°N, 75.08°WPamlico — 34.77°N, 76.65°WPamlico — 35.25°N, 76.57°WPamlico — 35.64°N, 76.19°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 36.33°N, 76.17°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.22°S, 70.88°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.27°S, 70.91°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.13°S, 70.92°WImperial — 32.83°N, 116.04°WImperial — 33.41°N, 116.06°WImperial — 32.80°N, 116.07°WSan Diego — 32.80°N, 117.24°WSan Diego — 32.80°N, 117.26°WSan Diego — 34.04°N, 118.53°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°WUrumaco — 11.20°N, 70.26°WUrumaco — 11.00°N, 69.83°WPuerto Madryn — 42.97°S, 64.31°WPuerto Madryn — 42.58°S, 64.32°WPuerto Madryn — 42.07°S, 63.75°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°W

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The named rock units Argopecten has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 77 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 169 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Argopecten and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Argopecten and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

3,546 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 351 sites for Argopecten, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

122 references

Each of the 772 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. 110 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 content3

Picture of Argopecten

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Argopecten irradians irradians · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:183565

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itPectinidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Monterosato 1889)