Aviculopecten

Searched as Aviculopecten rectalaterarius. The Paleobiology Database treats Aviculopecten as the accepted name.

Aviculopecten is an extinct genus of bivalve mollusc that lived from the Early Devonian to the Late Triassic in Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.

Aviculopecten

Wilson44691 at English Wikipedia · Public Domain · 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
AviculopectinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pectinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At most 2.3 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 306 Mya and 303.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306.5 Mya303.2 Mya

1 occurrence of Aviculopecten on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

1 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

1 formation

Pottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°W

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

Aviculopecten and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Aviculopecten and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,065 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 708 sites for Aviculopecten, and this reads 240 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Aviculopecten

Credit
Wilson44691 at English Wikipedia
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aviculopecten 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.

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 itAviculopectinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (M'Coy 1851)