Vertipecten
No picture of Vertipecten was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Vertipecten, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
104 occurrences of Vertipecten on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
104 occurrencesThese 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
16 formations
- Vaqueros Formation35
- Clallam Formation17
- Temblor Formation15
- Jewett Formation8
- Pleito Formation · San Lorenzo Group6
- Quimper Formation2
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The named rock units Vertipecten has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Vertipecten and its relatives
MioceneWhere Vertipecten and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
374 taxa- Lucinoma acutilineata24 sites
- Balanus23 sites
- Macrochlamis magnolia19 sites
- Dallocardia vaquerosense16 sites
- Polinices (Neverita) reclusianus andersoni15 sites
- Turritella inezana14 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinia) whitneyi13 sites
- Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis12 sites
- Vaquerosella vaquerosensis12 sites
- Chlamys sespeensis11 sites
- Califrapana vaquerosensis10 sites
- Crenostrea eldridgei10 sites
- Macoma (Psammacoma) arctata10 sites
- Psammotreta (Leporimetis) rostellata10 sites
- Anomia vaquerosensis9 sites
- Clementia conradiana9 sites
- Crenomytilus expansus9 sites
- Lyropecten miguelensis9 sites
- Mactromeris albaria9 sites
- Bittium topangensis8 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) temblorensis8 sites
- Clementia (Egesta) pertenuis8 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana8 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana projecta8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Vertipecten, 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
20 references- The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California. I. Paleontology34
- Molluscan paleontology of the lower Miocene Clallam Formation, northwestern Washington15
- Oligocene molluscan biostratigraphy and paleontology of the Lower Part of the type Temblor Formation, California12
- Cenozoic giant pectinids from California and the Tertiary Caribbean Province; Lyropecten, "Macrochlamis," Vertipecten, and Nodipecten species8
- The San Lorenzo Group of the San Emigdio region, California6
- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington5
- Tertiary and Quaternary pectens of California5
- Cenozoic Pectinids of Alaska, Iceland, and Other Northern Regions3
- The Neocene deposits of Kern River, California, and the Temblor Basin3
- A Miocene long-beaked porpoise from California2
- Geology of the eastern part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California2
- Partial Skeleton of a Bony-Toothed Bird from the Late Oligocene/Early Miocene of Oregon (USA) and the Systematics of Neogene Pelagornithidae1
Each of the 104 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. 8 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
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No picture of Vertipecten was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Vertipecten, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vertipecten was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPectinidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Grant, IV and Gale 1931)