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Lyropecten cerrosensis

Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae

Taxonomy
Pecten cerrosensis was named by Gabb (1866). Its type specimen is UCMP 32669, a shell (a large two-valved individual), and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Pecten (Plagioctenium) cerrosensis by Arnold (1906) and Hertlein (1925); it was recombined as Pecten (Lyropecten) cerrosensis by Jordan and Hertlein (1926); it was recombined as Chlamys (Lyropecten) cerrosensis by Hertlein and Grant (1972); it was recombined as Nodipecten cerrosensis by Waller (2007); it was recombined as Lyropecten cerrosensis by Woodring (1938), Woodring and Bramlette (1950), Moore (1984), Smith (1991) and Hendy (2020).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1866Pecten cerrosensis Gabb p. 32 figs. pl. 9, figs. 55, 55a
1906Pecten (Lyropecten) ashleyi Arnold p. 122 figs. pl. 47, figs. 1, 1a
1906Pecten (Plagioctenium) cerrosensis Arnold p. 123
1925Pecten (Plagioctenium) cerrosensis Hertlein
1926Pecten (Lyropecten) cerrosensis Jordan and Hertlein p. 432
1938Lyropecten cerrosensis Woodring p. 32 figs. Plate 7
1950Lyropecten cerrosensis Woodring and Bramlette
1972Chlamys (Lyropecten) cerrosensis Hertlein and Grant p. 209 figs. Plate 34, Figures 1-4; Plate 36, Figure 7
1984Lyropecten cerrosensis Moore p. B55 figs. Plate 20, figures I, 3, 4; plate 21, figure 1
1991Lyropecten cerrosensis Smith pp. 49 - 50 figs. Plate 27, figures 5, 6; plate 28, figures 2, 3, 4
2007Nodipecten cerrosensis Waller p. 933
2020Lyropecten cerrosensis Hendy

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
—Eubivalvia
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
infraclassPteriomorphia(Beurlen 1944)
RankNameAuthor
—OstreomorphiFerussac 1822
—OstreioniFerussac 1822
—OstreataFerussac 1822
superorderOstreiformiiFerussac 1822
orderPectinida(Gray 1854)
suborderPectinidina(Adams and Adams 1858)
superfamilyPectinoideaRafinesque 1815
—PectinoidaeRafinesque 1815
familyPectinidaeWilkes 1810
genusLyropectenConrad 1862
speciescerrosensis()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Invalid names: Pecten (Lyropecten) ashleyi Arnold 1906 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
W. M. Gabb 1866Shell equivalve, subcircular, broader than long, convex ; beaks small; sides sloping concavely above, rounded below ; ears small, subequal, roughened and irregular, sinus very small. Surface marked by eighteen or twenty flat ribs, with flat or slightly concave interspaces ; margins undulated, the ends of the ribs being deeply emarginated, and the interspaces being prolonged into tongue-like processes.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitef
Composition 2: aragonitef
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: facultatively mobileg
Life habit: epifaunalg
Diet: suspension feederg
Vision: limitedf
Created: 2009-09-09 08:13:34
Modified: 2009-09-09 10:13:34
Source: g = genus, f = family, o = order
References: Sanchez Roig 1926, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Messinian to the top of the Gelasian or 7.24600 to 1.80600 Ma

Collections (34 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Miocene23.03 - 5.333USA (California) Lyropecten cerrosensis (195415) Lyropecten estrellanus (195082)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333USA (California) Lyropecten cerrosensis (194870)
Early/Lower Pliocene5.333 - 3.6USA (California) Pecten ashleyi (120822)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Mexico (Sonora) Pecten cerrosensis, Pecten cerrosensis (96564)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Mexico (Baja California) Pecten cerrosensis (97124 97125 97127) Pecten cerrosensis, Pecten ashleyi (208197)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Mexico (Baja California Sur) Pecten cerrosensis (43682 43684)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588USA (California) Lyropecten cerrosensis (218944) Pecten ashleyi (204364) Pecten cerrosensis (204365 204366 208313 237380 237386) Pecten cerrosensis, Pecten ashleyi (120820 186032)
Zanclean - Gelasian5.333 - 1.806USA (California) Lyropecten cerrosensis (214261 214262)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588USA (California) Lyropecten cerrosensis (238607) Pecten cerrosensis (237593)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588Mexico (Baja California) Lyropecten cerrosensis (52229)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588USA (California) Chlamys cerrosensis (226581) Lyropecten cerrosensis (13451)
Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene3.6 - 0.781USA (California) Pecten cerrosensis (237590)
Gelasian2.588 - 1.806USA (California) Lyropecten cerrosensis (189554 189555 189559 189768 189769 207663)