Swiftopecten parmeleei etchegoini

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Swiftopecten parmeleeiPBDB
- 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 most 4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 1.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Swiftopecten parmeleei etchegoini on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene88%
- Pleistocene12%
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
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The named rock units Swiftopecten parmeleei etchegoini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Swiftopecten parmeleei etchegoini and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Swiftopecten parmeleei etchegoini and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Anadara trilineata3 sites
- Astrangia coalingensis2 sites
- Calliostoma kerri2 sites
- Chama arcana2 sites
- Dallocardia quadragenarium2 sites
- Dendostrea vespertina2 sites
- Merriamaster perrini2 sites
- Oppenheimopecten coalingaensis2 sites
- Panopea generosa2 sites
- Swiftopecten parmeleei parmaleei2 sites
- Argopecten circularis impostor1 site
- Astraea (Pomaulax) breaensis1 site
- Barbarofusus barbarensis1 site
- Boreotrophon multicostatus1 site
- Caesia californiana1 site
- Caesia fossatus1 site
- Caesia moraniana1 site
- Caesia perpinguis1 site
- Calicantharus fortis1 site
- Califostoma turris1 site
- Callianax pedroana1 site
- Calliostoma coalingensis1 site
- Calyptraea filosa1 site
- Camelidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Swiftopecten parmeleei etchegoini, 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
3 references- Geology of the Kettleman Hills Oil Field, California, Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Structure1
- Some new species from the Pliocene of Southern California with a few changes in nomenclature1
- The Etchegoin Pliocene of middle California1
Each of the 3 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 Swiftopecten parmeleei etchegoini
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- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Swiftopecten parmeleei etchegoini 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSwiftopecten parmeleei through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Anderson 1905)