Pecten novaezelandiae

Pecten novaezelandiae, common name the New Zealand scallop, is a bivalve mollusc of the family Pectinidae, the scallops. Its name is sometimes found misspelt as Pecten novaezealandiae.

Pecten novaezelandiae

(c) Saryu Mae, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0 · 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
PectenPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pecten
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pecten
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pecten
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At most 1.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1.63 Mya and 129 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 2 of 2 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences1.6–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–994 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences994 ka–923 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences923 ka–852 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences852 ka–781 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences781 ka–710 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences710 ka–639 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences639 ka–568 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences568 ka–497 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences497 ka–426 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426 ka–355 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences355 ka–284 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284 ka–213 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213 ka–142 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142 ka–71 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.13 Mya0 Mya

2 occurrences of Pecten novaezelandiae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

2 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

2 formations

Waiomio — 40.03°S, 175.48°ETainui Shell Bed — 39.95°S, 174.98°E

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The named rock units Pecten novaezelandiae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pecten novaezelandiae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pecten novaezelandiae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pecten novaezelandiae, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Pecten novaezelandiae

Credit
(c) Saryu Mae, some rights reserved (CC BY)
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pecten novaezelandiae was found in Sketchfab.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reeve 1853