Bittiolum

Bittiolum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cerithiidae.

Bittiolum

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CerithiidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 24 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 24 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 24 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 24 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–8.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences37.71 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

24 occurrences of Bittiolum on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

24 occurrences

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

13 formations

Caloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WGuaiguaza Clay — 10.00°N, 68.00°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WLaredo — 27.51°N, 99.51°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WChuy — 33.88°S, 53.52°W

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The named rock units Bittiolum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bittiolum and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Bittiolum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,256 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Bittiolum, 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

17 references

Each of the 24 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. 5 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

Media content1

Picture of Bittiolum

Credit
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bittiolum 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCerithiidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cossmann 1906)