Leopecten stearnsii

Leopecten stearnsii

Wright · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
LeopectenPBDB
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 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 39 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 27 of 39 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 11 of 39 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

39 occurrences of Leopecten stearnsii on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

39 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

13 formations

Pico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.54°WSan Diego — 32.80°N, 117.26°WSan Diego — 34.04°N, 118.53°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°WSan Diego — 32.80°N, 117.24°WTirabuzon — 27.36°N, 112.29°WFoxen Mudstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.89°N, 120.54°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.77°N, 118.31°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.29°WSan Marcos — 27.08°N, 112.05°WInfierno — 27.28°N, 112.25°WWaimanalo — 21.35°N, 158.12°WSalada — 27.32°N, 112.28°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WSaugus — 34.33°N, 118.49°W

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The named rock units Leopecten stearnsii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leopecten stearnsii and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Leopecten stearnsii and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

431 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Leopecten stearnsii, 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

15 references

Each of the 39 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. 3 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 Leopecten stearnsii

Source
GBIF
Credit
Wright
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Leopecten stearnsii 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.

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What may have been alongside itLeopecten through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1878)