Flabellipecten

Pecten is a genus of large scallops or saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae, the scallops. This is the type genus of the family.

Flabellipecten

Manfred Heyde · 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
Sits inside
PectinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 136 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 136 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 136 occurrencesOligocene — about 12 of 136 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 91 of 136 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 31 of 136 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 136 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 6 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 6 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 46 occurrences12–9.4 Mya — about 11 occurrences9.4–7.2 Mya — about 11 occurrences7.2–5.0 Mya — about 10 occurrences5.0–2.7 Mya — about 25 occurrences2.7–516 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences61.66 Mya2.58 Mya67 Mya516 ka

136 occurrences of Flabellipecten on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

136 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

32 formations

Gatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.85°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WPuerto Madryn — 41.20°S, 69.15°WPuerto Madryn — 42.58°S, 64.32°WPuerto Madryn — 44.50°S, 65.27°WKourtes — 35.20°N, 25.10°ECulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.13°N, 79.62°WFinikia — 35.30°N, 25.27°EGavdos — 34.83°N, 24.08°EApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°EVaqueros — 34.57°N, 120.29°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.16°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.14°WUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°ESalada — 24.82°N, 111.73°WSalada — 23.23°N, 109.78°WCaimito — 9.21°N, 79.82°WPinczow — 50.53°N, 20.53°ENiechobrz — 49.92°N, 21.87°EEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WTirabuzon — 27.36°N, 112.29°WCanoa — 0.20°N, 80.27°WAntigua — 17.17°N, 61.85°WImperial — 32.83°N, 116.04°WSlama — 36.00°N, 0.60°EAr Rajmah — 31.65°N, 20.51°EDiest — 51.19°N, 4.46°EBohio — 9.17°N, 79.85°WLas Cahobas — 18.54°N, 72.28°W

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The named rock units Flabellipecten has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 66 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Flabellipecten and its relatives

Miocene

Where Flabellipecten and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,255 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Flabellipecten, 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

36 references

Each of the 136 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. 24 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 content1

Picture of Flabellipecten

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sacco 1897)