Pitar (Calpitaria) petropolitanus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Pitar (Calpitaria)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pitar
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Pitar
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pitar
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Pitar (Calpitaria) petropolitanus 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
8 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
3 formations
- Stone City Formation4
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group3
- Crockett Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Pitar (Calpitaria) petropolitanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pitar (Calpitaria) petropolitanus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pitar (Calpitaria) petropolitanus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
277 taxa- Caryocorbula deusseni6 sites
- Notocorbula texana6 sites
- Orthoyoldia psammotaea6 sites
- Pachecoa6 sites
- Tellina (Eurytellina) mooreana6 sites
- Vokesula smithvillensis6 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis5 sites
- Pteropsella5 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) uxorispalmeri4 sites
- Katherinella smithvillensis4 sites
- Venericor planicosta4 sites
- Anomia ephippioides3 sites
- Atrina3 sites
- Calorhadia (Litorhadia) evanescentior3 sites
- Calorhadia compsa3 sites
- Crassostrea3 sites
- Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea) petropolitana3 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus3 sites
- Pachecoa (Pachecoa) sabinica3 sites
- Pteria3 sites
- Venericardia (Claibornicardia) trapaquara3 sites
- Abderospira2 sites
- Abra (Abra) petropolitana2 sites
- Abra nitens2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Pitar (Calpitaria) petropolitanus, 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
3 references- Pelecypoda from the type locality of the Stone City beds (Middle Eocene) of Texas4
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals3
- 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 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
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No picture of Pitar (Calpitaria) petropolitanus 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 Pitar (Calpitaria) petropolitanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pitar (Calpitaria) petropolitanus 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 itPitar (Calpitaria) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stenzel et al. 1957