Vertipecten porterensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VertipectenPBDB
- 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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
6 occurrences of Vertipecten porterensis on record. 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
6 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
3 formations
- Quimper Formation2
- Gries Ranch Formation1
- Escalante Formation · Caramah Group1
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The named rock units Vertipecten porterensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Anthozoa2 sites
- Dentalium porterensis2 sites
- Hemithiris2 sites
- Stylaster milleri2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) shumardi1 site
- Acrilla (Ferminoscala) becki1 site
- Acteon parvum1 site
- Acutostrea griesensis1 site
- Balanophyllia fulleri1 site
- Chlamys grunskyi1 site
- Conus ruckmani1 site
- Echinophoria dalli1 site
- Epitonium condoni oregonense1 site
- Epitonium condoni oregonensis1 site
- Gryphus oakvilleensis1 site
- Gyrineum jeffersonensis1 site
- Homalopoma coombsi1 site
- Lima bella1 site
- Molopophorus effingeri1 site
- Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis1 site
- Olequahia lorenzana1 site
- Ostrea cf. idriaensis feltkei1 site
- Perse olympicensis1 site
- Petrophyllia weaveri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Vertipecten porterensis, 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
4 references- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington3
- Age and depositional environment of the lower part of Escalante Formation, western Vancouver Island, British Columbia1
- Pelecypoda from the Marine Oligocene of Western North America1
- A preliminary report on the Tertiary paleontology of western Washington1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Vertipecten porterensis 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 porterensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vertipecten porterensis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Weaver 1912)