Pseudopecten

Pseudopecten

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PectinidaePBDB
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 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 169 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 166 of 169 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 169 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 169 occurrencesLate Jurassic207–205 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences205–203 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 2 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 4 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 4 occurrences195–193 Mya — about 4 occurrences193–191 Mya — about 19 occurrences191–189 Mya — about 21 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 21 occurrences187–185 Mya — about 21 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 49 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 19 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences177–175 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201.4 Mya154.8 Mya207 Mya148 Mya

169 occurrences of Pseudopecten 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

169 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

24 formations

Whitby Mudstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WCleveland Ironstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WBarahona Limestone — 41.93°N, 3.15°WBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WLower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WSão Gião — 40.06°N, 8.46°WAmaltheenton — 49.79°N, 11.04°EAmaltheenton — 50.06°N, 10.79°EAmaltheenton — 52.08°N, 8.24°EAmaltheenton — 52.06°N, 8.34°EAmaltheenton — 52.15°N, 7.51°EAmaltheenton — 49.35°N, 11.36°EOzirovo — 42.86°N, 23.25°EOzirovo — 42.77°N, 24.71°EOzirovo — 43.25°N, 23.41°EOzirovo — 43.03°N, 23.23°EOzirovo — 43.06°N, 23.14°EOzirovo — 43.05°N, 23.03°EPuchenque — 35.48°S, 69.92°WPuchenque — 35.10°S, 70.10°WLemede — 40.11°N, 8.77°WEl Cholo — 34.95°S, 69.72°WEl Cholo — 32.28°S, 70.03°WPiedra Pintada — 39.97°S, 70.47°WPiedra Pintada — 39.87°S, 70.48°WSao Giao — 40.11°N, 8.77°WAberhan Sinemur — 33.47°S, 70.75°WKardosret — 47.00°N, 17.00°ERiva di Solto — 46.00°N, 10.00°ESedrina Limestone — 46.00°N, 10.00°EPecten Ironstone — 53.50°N, 0.33°WAlmonacid de la Cuba — 41.29°N, 0.79°WBarahona — 41.29°N, 0.79°WÁgua de Madeiros — 39.73°N, 9.04°WKamar-e-Mehdi — 33.00°N, 56.50°EMarlstone Rock — 51.80°N, 1.88°WMiddle Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WStaithes Sandstone — 54.26°N, 1.28°W

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The named rock units Pseudopecten has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 45 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudopecten and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Pseudopecten and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

482 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 145 sites for Pseudopecten, 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

28 references

Each of the 169 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. 16 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 content1

Picture of Pseudopecten

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bayle 1878