Pitar murphyi
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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 most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pitar murphyi on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
2 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Pitar murphyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pitar murphyi and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Pitar murphyi and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Diplodonta (Zemysina) pacifica2 sites
- ? Dacridium penjicus1 site
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa1 site
- Acrilla (Ferminoscala) durhami1 site
- Acutostrea simiensis1 site
- Amauropsis meierensis1 site
- Angulus1 site
- Bucardiomya mounti1 site
- Chlamys (Camptochlamys)1 site
- Corbula (Cuneocorbula) formosa1 site
- Crassatella uvasana1 site
- Crassatina (Chattonia)1 site
- Eocernina hespericosta1 site
- Eucrassatella1 site
- Fulgoraria (Psephaea) zinsmeisteri1 site
- Fulgurofusus darraghi1 site
- Fulgurofusus waringi1 site
- Gilbertina popenoei1 site
- Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia) keenae1 site
- Gyrineum judithi1 site
- Gyrodes (Gyrodes) robustus1 site
- Heteroterma acrita1 site
- Hilgardia parkei1 site
- Ledina fresnoensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pitar murphyi, 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
2 references- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.1
- New Late Paleocene molluscs from the Simi Hills, Ventura County, Califonia1
Each of the 2 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 content0
No picture of Pitar murphyi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pitar murphyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPitar through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zinsmeister 1983