Lituyapecten dilleri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LituyapectenPBDB
- 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 most 4.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Lituyapecten dilleri 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
11 occurrences- Pliocene63%
- Pleistocene37%
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
5 formations
- Foxen Mudstone Formation6
- Merced Formation1
- Wildcat Formation1
- Careaga Sandstone Formation1
- Rio Dell Formation · Wildcat Group1
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The named rock units Lituyapecten dilleri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lituyapecten dilleri and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Lituyapecten dilleri and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Crepidula princeps3 sites
- Lirobittium casmaliense3 sites
- Balanidae2 sites
- Cryptonatica affinis2 sites
- Patinopecten caurinus2 sites
- Acharax ventricosa1 site
- Anadara trilineata1 site
- Antiplanes voyi1 site
- Argopecten cristobalensis1 site
- Argopecten percarus1 site
- Argopecten ventricosus1 site
- Boreotrophon fleenerensis1 site
- Buccinum strigillatum1 site
- Caesia fossatus1 site
- Callorhinus gilmorei1 site
- Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) hippocastanum1 site
- Chione californiensis1 site
- Clinocardium (Clinocardium) meekianum1 site
- Coanicardita californica1 site
- Conchocele bisecta1 site
- Conus regularis1 site
- Cumingia californica1 site
- Dendostrea vespertina1 site
- Dendraster pentagonalis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Lituyapecten dilleri, 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
6 references- Geology and paleontology of the Santa Maria District California5
- On the reconciliation of biostratigraphy and strontium isotope stratigraphy of three southern Californian Plio-Pleistocene formations2
- Catalogue of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California1
- Expedition to the Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico, in 1925, VII. Contribution to the geology and paleontology of the Tertiary of Cedros Island and adjacent parts of Lower California1
- Faunal and stratigraphic relationships of the Empire Formation, Coos Bay, Oregon1
- Tertiary and Quaternary pectens of California1
Each of the 11 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. 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
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No picture of Lituyapecten dilleri 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 Lituyapecten dilleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lituyapecten dilleri 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 itLituyapecten through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1901)