Chlamys (Lyropecten) menthifontis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LyropectenPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lyropecten
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lyropecten
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lyropecten
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Chlamys (Lyropecten) menthifontis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
6 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Chlamys (Lyropecten) menthifontis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chlamys (Lyropecten) menthifontis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Chlamys (Lyropecten) menthifontis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
146 taxa- Pecten (Pecten) poulsoni5 sites
- Tellina5 sites
- Agnocardia glebosum4 sites
- Astarte menthifontis4 sites
- Callista4 sites
- Corbula engonata4 sites
- Crenella fenestra4 sites
- Dentalium4 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) eburnea4 sites
- Eburneopecten (Eburneopecten) subminutus4 sites
- Ervilia4 sites
- Glycymeris suwannensis4 sites
- Lirophora (Lirophora) victoria4 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) diversum4 sites
- Nucula vicksburgensis4 sites
- Pitar4 sites
- Plectodon4 sites
- Pleurolucina imbricolamella4 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) delicatula4 sites
- Semelina4 sites
- Sportella oblonga4 sites
- Varicorbula laqueata4 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) carsonensis4 sites
- Verticordia4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Chlamys (Lyropecten) menthifontis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Chlamys (Lyropecten) menthifontis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Chlamys (Lyropecten) menthifontis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chlamys (Lyropecten) menthifontis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLyropecten through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Glawe 1970)