Argopecten gibbus

Argopecten gibbus, the Atlantic calico scallop, is a species of medium-sized edible marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.

Argopecten gibbus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
Atlantic calico scallopPBDB
Sits inside
ArgopectenPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Argopecten
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Argopecten
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Argopecten
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 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 35 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 35 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 35 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 19 of 35 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 14 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

35 occurrences of Argopecten gibbus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

35 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

16 formations

Mare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 63.00°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 64.00°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WWaccamaw — 34.23°N, 77.94°WWaccamaw — 34.29°N, 78.51°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WKirkwood — 39.40°N, 75.04°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WPamlico — 35.59°N, 76.23°WHorry Clay — 33.69°N, 78.89°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPirabas — 2.58°S, 43.38°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°W

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The named rock units Argopecten gibbus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Argopecten gibbus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Argopecten gibbus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,025 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Argopecten gibbus, 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

20 references

Each of the 35 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. 8 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 gibbus

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

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Argopecten gibbus · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:163671

3D model

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

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 itArgopecten through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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