Bittium (Stylidium)

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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 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 774 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 11 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 11 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48.07 Mya3.6 Mya57 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Bittium (Stylidium) on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

11 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

6 formations

Pico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WSabinetown Bluff — 31.40°N, 93.71°WMerced — 43.39°N, 124.28°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.91°N, 87.74°WQueen City — 30.00°N, 97.14°W

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The named rock units Bittium (Stylidium) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bittium (Stylidium) and its relatives

Eocene

Where Bittium (Stylidium) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

64 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Bittium (Stylidium), 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

5 references

Each of the 11 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Bittium (Stylidium) 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 Bittium (Stylidium), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Bittium (Stylidium) 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 timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.