Ornithopecten

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AviculopectinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pectinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 233.6 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 22 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 3 of 22 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 16 of 22 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 2 of 22 occurrencesLate Triassic255–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 2 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 2 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–241 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251.902 Mya237 Mya254.6 Mya233.1 Mya

22 occurrences of Ornithopecten on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

22 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

11 formations

Wetterstein — 48.50°N, 17.33°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECaerace — 45.05°N, 29.06°EHuangzhishan — 30.92°N, 119.99°EDajialian — 37.49°N, 99.38°EYinkeng — 31.08°N, 119.70°EMarmolata — 46.45°N, 11.87°EVászoly — 47.14°N, 18.02°EParsymurunskaya — 42.46°N, 52.95°EDolnapinskaya — 41.92°N, 52.66°ERecoaro — 44.17°N, 18.46°E

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The named rock units Ornithopecten 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.

Ornithopecten and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Ornithopecten and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

882 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Ornithopecten, 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

13 references

Each of the 22 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. 1 further reference is 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

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No picture of Ornithopecten 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 Ornithopecten, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ornithopecten 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 itAviculopectinidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cox 1961