Nodipecten

Nodipecten is a genus of large scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae, the scallops. These scallops often have attractive, strongly colored, thick shells. The generic name Nodipecten means "nodular scallop", because in this genus the shell is usually sculpted with regular, very large nodes.

Nodipecten

Randolph Femmer · Public Domain · 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
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 112 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 43 of 112 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 49 of 112 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 18 of 112 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 14 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 16 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 16 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

112 occurrences of Nodipecten on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

112 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

35 formations

Gurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.17°WGurabo — 19.35°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 63.00°WPancho Rico — 35.74°N, 120.83°WPancho Rico — 36.21°N, 121.02°WPancho Rico — 36.13°N, 121.02°WPancho Rico — 35.89°N, 120.56°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.89°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.42°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WSan Marcos — 26.00°N, 111.14°WSan Marcos — 27.08°N, 112.05°WSan Marcos — 26.02°N, 111.35°WBelmont — 12.46°N, 61.43°WBelmont — 12.44°N, 61.47°WBelmont — 12.46°N, 61.47°WGrand Bay — 12.48°N, 61.42°WTirabuzon — 27.36°N, 112.29°WTirabuzon — 27.33°N, 112.27°WMonterey — 35.99°N, 120.30°WMonterey — 33.60°N, 117.80°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WWare — 11.85°N, 71.32°WSanta Margarita — 36.20°N, 120.32°WSanta Margarita — 35.89°N, 120.56°WGran Bajo del Gualicho — 40.38°S, 65.25°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WSan Margarita — 37.05°N, 122.07°WJewett — 35.49°N, 118.85°WYsidro — 26.58°N, 112.07°WCarriacou — 12.46°N, 61.47°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WBranch Canyon — 34.90°N, 119.69°W

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The named rock units Nodipecten has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 34 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nodipecten and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Nodipecten and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

2,200 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Nodipecten, 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

51 references

Each of the 112 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. 39 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 Nodipecten

Credit
Randolph Femmer
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1898)