Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Alternative spellings: Chlamys (Aequipecten), Lyropecten (Aequipecten), Pecten (Aequipecten)
Synonyms: Aequipecten (Perapecten) Wagner 1985, Perapecten Wagner 1985
Parent taxon: Chlamydinae according to R. Marquet 2002
See also Arnold 1906, Bouchet et al. 2010, del Rio 1992, Dockery 1982, Gardner 1943, Glibert 1985, Islamoglu and Taner 1995, Ladd and Hoffmeister 1945, Mansfield 1940, Marasti 1973, Marquet and Dijkstra 2000, Moore 1984, Olsson 1967, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001, Vera-Peláez et al. 2004, Vredenburg 1928, Wienrich 1999 and Willett 1937
Sister taxa: Crassadoma, Cryptopecten, Hilberia, Patriciapecten, Psychrochlamys, Semipallium, Janopecten, Taimyronectes, Subulatachlamys
Subtaxa: Aequipecten (Aequipecten) Aequipecten bierringi Aequipecten commutatus Aequipecten comparilis Aequipecten decorus Aequipecten florida Aequipecten macrotis Aequipecten malvinae Aequipecten opercularis Aequipecten paranensis Aequipecten radians Aequipecten suwaneensis Aequipecten tehuelchus Aequipecten trigintaradiata Aequipecten wagenaari Chlamys (Aequipecten) chickaria Chlamys (Aequipecten) cocoanus Chlamys (Aequipecten) durchanaensis Chlamys (Aequipecten) gainestownensis Chlamys (Aequipecten) glendonensis Chlamys (Aequipecten) redwoodensis Chlamys (Aequipecten) subtripartita Chlamys (Aequipecten) thunensis Chlamys (Aequipecten) waynensis Lyropecten (Aequipecten) acuteplicatus Lyropecten (Aequipecten) arlesiensis Lyropecten (Aequipecten) campaniensis Lyropecten (Aequipecten) ternatus Lyropecten (Aequipecten) walleri Pecten (Aequipecten) hallae Pecten (Aequipecten) palmeri Pecten (Aequipecten) preglyptus Pecten (Aequipecten) seinaamensis Pecten (Aequipecten) subserraticosta
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (4 collections), Belgium (2), Brazil (7), Egypt (1), Greece (1), Haiti (2), Ireland (1), Italy (3), Japan (1), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (2), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (11), United States (12: Florida, North Carolina), Uruguay (1), Yemen (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Algeria (4), Belgium (9), Greece (5), India (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Panama (2), Portugal (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (11), United States (9: Florida)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Alabama)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of Argentina (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (10), Argentina (34), Austria (5), Belgium (10), Brazil (3), Bulgaria (3), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), Cyprus (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (5), Fiji (1), France (7), Germany (27), Greece (2), Haiti (3), India (1), Italy (8), Libya (1), Malaysia (1), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1), Northern Mariana Islands (2), Panama (7), Poland (6), Romania (2), Slovakia (4), South Africa (1), Spain (1), United States (1: California)
• Oligocene of Bulgaria (5), Haiti (2), India (4), Iran (1), Israel (1), Libya (1), Panama (2), United States (17: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Bulgaria (9), China (1), Romania (1), Turkey (1), United States (12: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), China (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), France (3), New Zealand (6), Poland (9), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (4)
• Jurassic of Ethiopia (1), France (1), Germany (1), Greenland (22), Japan (5), Luxembourg (1), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (5), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), Tanzania (2)
• Triassic of China (4), Indonesia (8)
Total: 401 collections including 461 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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