Patinopecten propatulus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PatinopectenPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
20 occurrences of Patinopecten propatulus 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
20 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Patinopecten propatulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Patinopecten propatulus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Patinopecten propatulus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
104 taxa- Acila (Truncacila) conradi6 sites
- Mactromeris albaria6 sites
- Cryptonatica oregonensis4 sites
- Dentalium pseudonyma4 sites
- Anadara (Anadara) devincta3 sites
- Crepidula praerupta3 sites
- Lucinoma acutilineata3 sites
- Tellinidae3 sites
- Thracia (Homoeodesma) trapezoides3 sites
- Anadara montereyana2 sites
- Anadara trilineata2 sites
- Cancellaria (Euclia) condoni2 sites
- Cancellaria (Euclia) dalliana2 sites
- Cyclocardia subtenta2 sites
- Fusus (Priscofusus) stanfordensis2 sites
- Katherinella (Katherinella) angustifrons2 sites
- Macoma2 sites
- Macoma (Psammacoma) arctata2 sites
- Macoma albaria2 sites
- Modiolus (Modiolus) ynezianus garzaensis2 sites
- Nuculana2 sites
- Panopea generosa2 sites
- Rexithaerus secta2 sites
- Tellina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Patinopecten propatulus, 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
4 references- Miocene marine mollusks from the Astoria Formation in Oregon8
- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington8
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of the marine Neogene formations of the Coalinga region, California3
- Gastropod Predation and Depositional Environments of Two Molluscan Communities from the Miocene Astoria Formation at Beverly Beach State Park, Oregon1
Each of the 20 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
Media content1

Picture of Patinopecten propatulus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Patinopecten propatulus 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 itPatinopecten through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1849)