Lyropecten

Lyropecten

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PectinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 69 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 271 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 271 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 271 occurrencesOligocene — about 33 of 271 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 141 of 271 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 80 of 271 occurrencesPleistocene — about 15 of 271 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 4 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 11 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 18 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 31 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 32 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 20 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 12 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 13 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 26 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 73 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 26 occurrences72.2 Mya2.58 Mya85 Mya0 Mya

271 occurrences of Lyropecten 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

271 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

43 formations

Vaqueros — 34.04°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 34.89°N, 119.75°WVaqueros — 33.54°N, 117.78°WVaqueros — 33.55°N, 117.82°WVaqueros — 33.64°N, 117.59°WVaqueros — 36.17°N, 120.67°WVaqueros — 33.98°N, 120.09°WVaqueros — 34.76°N, 120.05°WVaqueros — 33.94°N, 120.06°WVaqueros — 34.09°N, 119.04°WVaqueros — 34.04°N, 118.88°WVaqueros — 34.06°N, 118.91°WVaqueros — 34.44°N, 119.20°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.16°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.14°WVaqueros — 34.92°N, 119.13°WVaqueros — 35.66°N, 120.92°WVaqueros — 35.64°N, 120.93°WVaqueros — 35.30°N, 120.15°WVaqueros — 35.31°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 35.25°N, 120.06°WVaqueros — 35.28°N, 120.13°WVaqueros — 35.78°N, 121.06°WPico — 33.94°N, 117.89°WPico — 34.37°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.51°WPico — 34.40°N, 118.44°WPico — 34.32°N, 118.68°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WPancho Rico — 36.18°N, 121.18°WPancho Rico — 36.05°N, 121.18°WPancho Rico — 35.89°N, 121.05°WPancho Rico — 35.90°N, 120.84°WPancho Rico — 35.99°N, 120.91°WPancho Rico — 36.00°N, 120.45°WPancho Rico — 36.34°N, 121.02°WPancho Rico — 36.25°N, 121.29°WPancho Rico — 36.21°N, 121.02°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.80°WPancho Rico — 35.97°N, 120.73°WPancho Rico — 36.11°N, 120.97°WPancho Rico — 36.06°N, 121.20°WRincon — 34.04°N, 120.04°WRincon — 34.74°N, 120.31°WArcadia — 27.96°N, 82.37°WArcadia — 27.90°N, 81.84°WArcadia — 29.25°N, 82.17°WArcadia — 30.21°N, 84.30°WArcadia — 30.70°N, 84.80°WArcadia — 30.49°N, 85.17°WJacalitos — 36.08°N, 120.48°WJacalitos — 36.07°N, 120.44°WJacalitos — 36.04°N, 120.39°WJacalitos — 35.95°N, 120.17°WJacalitos — 35.94°N, 120.14°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WYsidro — 26.15°N, 112.25°WYsidro — 24.58°N, 112.00°WYsidro — 26.58°N, 112.07°WYsidro — 26.35°N, 112.00°WMonterey — 35.99°N, 120.30°WMonterey — 34.74°N, 120.31°WMonterey — 34.38°N, 118.95°WMonterey — 33.59°N, 117.71°WMonterey — 33.60°N, 117.80°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.54°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 31.98°N, 89.42°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WMint Spring — 32.48°N, 90.80°WCaloosahatchee — 25.97°N, 81.73°WCaloosahatchee — 25.95°N, 81.36°WCaloosahatchee — 25.91°N, 81.36°WCaloosahatchee — 25.75°N, 81.94°WGuajalote — 24.87°N, 98.15°WSanta Margarita — 34.38°N, 118.95°WSanta Margarita — 36.20°N, 120.32°WSanta Margarita — 37.06°N, 122.02°WSanta Margarita — 35.49°N, 120.42°WSanta Margarita — 36.14°N, 120.82°WSalada — 24.58°N, 112.00°WSalada — 26.02°N, 111.35°WSalada — 27.38°N, 114.63°WSan Diego — 32.80°N, 117.26°WSan Diego — 34.04°N, 118.53°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°WEtchegoin — 36.06°N, 120.48°WEtchegoin — 36.23°N, 120.31°WEtchegoin — 36.06°N, 120.45°WEtchegoin — 36.19°N, 120.64°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.24°WTemblor — 36.00°N, 120.51°WTemblor — 35.71°N, 119.98°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.07°N, 78.27°WLas Cahobas — 18.51°N, 72.27°WTuxpan — 20.95°N, 97.38°WTuxpan — 20.57°N, 97.50°WIsidro — 26.32°N, 112.12°WIsidro — 26.17°N, 112.27°WLompico Sandstone — 37.00°N, 122.12°W

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The named rock units Lyropecten has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lyropecten and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lyropecten and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,812 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 225 sites for Lyropecten, 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

57 references

Each of the 271 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. 45 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 Lyropecten

Credit
Veronidae
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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

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. (Conrad 1862)