Bittium spina

Bittium spina

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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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 44 occurrencesMiocene — about 41 of 44 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 44 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 44 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.5–8.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.7–8.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.0–7.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.7–5.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.0–4.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.3–3.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.8–2.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.0–1.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15.98 Mya2.58 Mya23.5 Mya1.3 Mya

44 occurrences of Bittium spina on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

44 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

Sabbie di Asti — 44.90°N, 8.20°ESabbie di Asti — 43.32°N, 11.33°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EBaldissero — 45.02°N, 7.71°EValldunga — 44.91°N, 8.12°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°E

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The named rock units Bittium spina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bittium spina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Bittium spina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

463 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Bittium spina, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

Each of the 44 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

Media content1

Picture of Bittium spina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Partsch 1856)