Spondylopecten

Spondylopecten

Lalment · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
SpondylopectininaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spondylidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Spondylidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Spondylidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Spondylidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 145.06 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 5 of 53 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 28 of 53 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 20 of 53 occurrencesLate Jurassic194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences191–189 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 2 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences171–169 Mya — about 1 occurrence169–167 Mya — about 2 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 3 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 8 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 9 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 5 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 5 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 3 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 2 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences184.2 Mya149.2 Mya193.9 Mya144.1 Mya

53 occurrences of Spondylopecten on record, most of them in the Middle 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

53 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

22 formations

Chari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EShuqra — 14.30°N, 48.47°EShuqra — 14.32°N, 48.45°ETataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°EDhruma — 22.62°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 22.53°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EYatova — 40.98°N, 0.62°WSot de Chera — 41.47°N, 1.42°WSot de Chera — 41.25°N, 1.08°WJhurio — 23.50°N, 70.50°EAntalo — 13.62°N, 39.44°EKambe — 4.03°S, 39.52°EKambe — 3.85°S, 39.65°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°ETurmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WPatcham — 23.52°N, 69.00°EMarrat — 24.50°N, 46.17°ETurmiel — 40.43°N, 1.42°WHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°EBihen Limestone — 10.15°N, 45.10°EKamar-e-Mehdi — 33.00°N, 56.50°EReuchenette — 47.40°N, 7.03°EMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°EBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WNusplingen Limestone — 48.13°N, 8.88°EArousiah — 30.66°N, 33.40°E

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The named rock units Spondylopecten 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.

Spondylopecten and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Spondylopecten and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

664 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Spondylopecten, 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

25 references

Each of the 53 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. 13 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 Spondylopecten

Source
GBIF
Credit
Lalment
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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 itSpondylopectininae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Röder 1882