Gigantopecten

Gigantopecten is a genus of fossil scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae, the scallops.

Gigantopecten

Hectonichus · 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, 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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesOligocene — about 3 of 24 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 18 of 24 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 24 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 24 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.4–6.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.3–5.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.1–3.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.0–2.0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences27.3 Mya3.6 Mya34.5 Mya2 Mya

24 occurrences of Gigantopecten 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

24 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

6 formations

Qom — 34.63°N, 50.72°EPartimao — 37.08°N, 8.68°WNiechobrz — 49.92°N, 21.87°ESlama — 36.00°N, 0.60°ESables des Landes — 43.94°N, 0.75°WGuadaíra — 37.36°N, 5.84°W

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The named rock units Gigantopecten has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gigantopecten and its relatives

Miocene

Where Gigantopecten and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

452 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Gigantopecten, 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

16 references

Each of the 24 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. 4 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 content2

Picture of Gigantopecten

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itPectinidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.