Pitar (Pitarina)
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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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.
6 occurrences of Pitar (Pitarina) on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
6 occurrences- Miocene33%
- Pleistocene67%
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
- Otsuki Formation1
- Lower Sandstone Formation · Bihoku Group1
- Dampier Limestone Formation1
- False Bay Coral Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Pitar (Pitarina) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pitar (Pitarina) and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Pitar (Pitarina) and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
155 taxa- Chlamys2 sites
- Circe (Circe) scripta2 sites
- Dendostrea folium2 sites
- Diplodonta2 sites
- Dosinia (Phacosoma)2 sites
- Gafrarium pectinatum2 sites
- Acila (Acila)1 site
- Acrosterigma1 site
- Acrosterigma (Vasticardium)1 site
- Acteocina1 site
- Alaba1 site
- Amussiopecten akiyamae1 site
- Anachis (Zafra)1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Anadara crebricostata1 site
- Anadara jacksoni1 site
- Anomia achaeus1 site
- Antalis1 site
- Antigona1 site
- Arca navicularis1 site
- Arca trapezia1 site
- Architectonica1 site
- Aturia coxi1 site
- Atys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pitar (Pitarina), 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- The Cainozoic palaeontology and stratigraphy of KwaZulu-Natal. Part 5. The False Bay Coral Limestone Formation. Stratigraphy and fauna1
- Occurrence of Aturia coxi (Cephalopoda: Nautilida) from the uppermost Miocene of Japan and its implication for Late Miocene marine climate in the northwestern Pacific1
- New fossil molluscs indicating tropical sea elements from the miocene Bihoku Group, southwest Honshu, Japan: Part 2 Description of Cancilla hirosei n. sp., with notes on some molluscs from the Bihoku Group of Shobara City, Hiroshima Prefecture1
- A Pleistocene molluscan fauna with Anadara trapezia (Deshayes) (Bivalvia: Arcoida) from the Dampier Limestone of Shark Bay, Western Australia1
- Appendix 1: Fossiliferous limestone of Quaternary age from Nauru1
- Marine mollusca from the "Ryukyu Limestone" of Kikai-Zima, Ryukyu Group1
Each of the 6 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.
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No picture of Pitar (Pitarina) 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 (Pitarina), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pitar (Pitarina) 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 through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jukes-Browne 1913)