Pecten priscus

Pecten priscus (Scholtheim, 1820), a relative of Pecten priscus — not Pecten priscus itself

Not Pecten priscus. This is Pecten priscus (Scholtheim, 1820), a relative — both are Pectinidae.

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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 8.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 192.9 Mya and 184.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 56 of 56 occurrencesEarly Jurassic193–193 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 2 occurrences192–192 Mya — about 2 occurrences192–192 Mya — about 2 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 2 occurrences191–191 Mya — about 2 occurrences191–191 Mya — about 2 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 2 occurrences190–190 Mya — about 2 occurrences190–190 Mya — about 2 occurrences190–190 Mya — about 2 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 2 occurrences189–189 Mya — about 2 occurrences189–189 Mya — about 2 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 2 occurrences188–188 Mya — about 2 occurrences188–188 Mya — about 2 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 2 occurrences187–187 Mya — about 2 occurrences187–187 Mya — about 2 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 2 occurrences186–186 Mya — about 2 occurrences186–186 Mya — about 2 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 2 occurrences185–185 Mya — about 2 occurrences185–185 Mya — about 2 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 2 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences193.4 Mya183.7 Mya

56 occurrences of Pecten priscus on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

56 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

3 formations

Cape Stewart — 70.45°N, 22.65°WCape Stewart — 70.44°N, 22.65°WCape Stewart — 70.47°N, 22.36°WCape Stewart — 70.46°N, 22.33°WCape Stewart Beds — 70.44°N, 22.64°WCape Stewart Beds — 70.46°N, 22.71°WCape Stewart Beds — 70.47°N, 22.64°WBelemnite Marls — 50.73°N, 2.87°W

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The named rock units Pecten priscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pecten priscus and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Pecten priscus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

126 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Pecten priscus, 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

6 references

Each of the 56 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 Pecten priscus (Scholtheim, 1820)

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itPecten through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schlotheim 1820)