Pitar (Pitar)

Pitar (Pitar)

Stichting Observation International · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PitarPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pitar
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Pitar
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pitar
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 29 of 181 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 63 of 181 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 181 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 36 of 181 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 28 of 181 occurrencesPleistocene — about 17 of 181 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 6 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 17 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 10 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 7 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 7 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 7 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 18 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 15 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 15 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 17 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 16 occurrences59.24 Mya129 ka63 Mya0 Mya

181 occurrences of Pitar (Pitar) on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

181 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

52 formations

Eugene — 44.05°N, 123.09°WEugene — 44.16°N, 123.05°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.02°WEugene — 45.21°N, 123.20°WEugene — 44.98°N, 123.21°WEugene — 44.94°N, 123.03°WEugene — 44.77°N, 123.03°WAquia — 38.33°N, 77.27°WAquia — 38.41°N, 77.26°WAquia — 38.82°N, 76.75°WAquia — 38.71°N, 77.02°WAquia — 38.90°N, 76.91°WAquia — 38.97°N, 76.76°WAquia — 38.60°N, 77.14°WAquia — 38.46°N, 77.27°WAquia — 38.60°N, 76.94°WAquia — 38.43°N, 77.38°WAquia — 38.27°N, 77.18°WAquia — 37.77°N, 77.37°WAquia — 37.32°N, 77.28°WAquia — 38.50°N, 77.59°WNanjemoy — 38.40°N, 76.99°WNanjemoy — 38.51°N, 77.02°WNanjemoy — 38.70°N, 76.97°WNanjemoy — 38.82°N, 76.75°WNanjemoy — 37.65°N, 77.17°WNanjemoy — 38.27°N, 77.18°WNanjemoy — 37.77°N, 77.37°WNanjemoy — 37.30°N, 77.16°WCulebra — 9.05°N, 79.65°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.96°N, 88.07°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.91°N, 87.74°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 87.75°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.46°N, 85.64°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.53°N, 87.32°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.52°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.61°N, 85.05°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.36°N, 88.70°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 122.98°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.86°N, 123.19°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.59°N, 123.21°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.69°N, 123.19°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°WTuscahoma — 31.84°N, 87.53°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WLillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WRed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°ECoralline Crag — 52.12°N, 1.55°EVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WVincentown — 39.93°N, 74.78°WGatuncillo — 9.18°N, 79.55°WGatuncillo — 9.18°N, 79.52°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WPuerto Madryn — 42.97°S, 64.31°WPuerto Madryn — 42.57°S, 64.28°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°EMontello conglomerate — 46.22°N, 12.80°EStepovak — 55.64°N, 159.67°WBohio — 9.18°N, 79.88°W

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The named rock units Pitar (Pitar) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pitar (Pitar) and its relatives

Eocene

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

Found in the same rock

2,777 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 88 sites for Pitar (Pitar), 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

51 references

Each of the 181 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. 39 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Pitar (Pitar)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Stichting Observation International
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Pitar albidus · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:158478

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. Römer 1857