Bittium koeneni
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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 most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Bittium koeneni on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
17 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group13
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Yazoo Formation · Jackson Group1
- Yazoo Clay Formation · Jackson Group1
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The named rock units Bittium koeneni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bittium koeneni and its relatives
EoceneWhere Bittium koeneni and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
466 taxa- Caestocorbula wailesiana13 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta13 sites
- Corbula densata12 sites
- Hipponix12 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus11 sites
- Retusa jacksonensis11 sites
- Alveinus minutus10 sites
- Bathytormus flexurus10 sites
- Euspira jacksonensis10 sites
- Hilgardia multilineata10 sites
- Kapalmerella alveata10 sites
- Spisula jacksonensis10 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata10 sites
- Calyptraphorus stamineus9 sites
- Dentalium9 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis9 sites
- Tritonatractus pearlensis9 sites
- Architectonica bellastriata8 sites
- Bullata semen8 sites
- Capulus americanus8 sites
- Kapalmerella arenicola8 sites
- Lirodiscus jacksonensis8 sites
- Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta8 sites
- Natica permunda8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Bittium koeneni, 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
6 references- Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi7
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals5
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area2
- Timing of latest Eocene molluscan extinction patterns in Mississippi1
- Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
Each of the 17 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 koeneni 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 koeneni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bittium koeneni was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
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.