Flabellipecten gatunensis macdonaldi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Leopecten gatunensisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pectinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 8.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
6 occurrences of Flabellipecten gatunensis macdonaldi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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 Flabellipecten gatunensis macdonaldi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Flabellipecten gatunensis macdonaldi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Flabellipecten gatunensis macdonaldi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1 taxon- Argopecten nerterus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Flabellipecten gatunensis macdonaldi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae).5
- Mollusca of the Tertiary formations of Northeastern Mexico1
Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No 3D scan of Flabellipecten gatunensis macdonaldi 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLeopecten gatunensis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Olsson 1922)