Bittium (Cerithidium)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BittiumPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Cerithiidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.
8 occurrences of Bittium (Cerithidium) on record. 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
8 occurrences- Oligocene38%
- Miocene25%
- Pliocene25%
- Pleistocene13%
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
4 formations
- Falun de Sainte-Avit Formation1
- Alexandria Formation1
- Monte Giogo Formation1
- Marnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe Formation1
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The named rock units Bittium (Cerithidium) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
391 taxa- Anomia2 sites
- Cerithidium plebeium2 sites
- Chama gryphoides2 sites
- Coralliophila2 sites
- Gari (Psammobia)2 sites
- Glycymeris2 sites
- Hiatella arctica2 sites
- Modiolus2 sites
- Nucula2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Pteria2 sites
- Sinezona praecedens2 sites
- Striarca2 sites
- Timoclea ovata2 sites
- Typhinellus2 sites
- Venus2 sites
- Abra1 site
- Acanthocardia1 site
- Acanthocardia (Agnocardia)1 site
- Acanthocardia paucicostata1 site
- Acar1 site
- Acirsa1 site
- Acteon tornatilis1 site
- Aequipecten1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Bittium (Cerithidium), 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- Nouvelles espéces de gastéropodes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de L'Oligocéne et di Miocéne inférieur de"Aquitaine (sud-ouest de la France)5
- Nuove specie di Gasteropodi del Piacenziano di rio Crevalese, Castell’Arquato (Piacenza, Italia)1
- The Tertiary limestone of the southern coastal regions of Cape Province, South Africa1
- Revised list of South African late Tertiary and Pleistocene marine Mollusca1
Each of the 8 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
Media content0
No picture of Bittium (Cerithidium) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Bittium (Cerithidium), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bittium (Cerithidium) 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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What may have been alongside itBittium through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Monterosato 1884)