Pitaria

Pitaria

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 114 occurrencesPaleocene — about 17 of 114 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 45 of 114 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 17 of 114 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 27 of 114 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 114 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 114 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 10 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 5 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 6 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 6 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 6 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 6 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.5–2.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

114 occurrences of Pitaria 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

114 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

33 formations

Meganos — 37.93°N, 121.82°WMeganos — 37.91°N, 121.74°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WWaita — 33.83°N, 130.50°EPendleton Ferry — 31.47°N, 93.57°WPendleton Ferry — 31.35°N, 93.57°WPendleton Ferry — 31.57°N, 93.48°WPendleton Ferry — 31.69°N, 93.30°WPendleton Ferry — 31.72°N, 93.22°WMarthaville — 31.74°N, 93.40°WMarthaville — 31.76°N, 93.09°WMarthaville — 31.57°N, 93.48°WMarthaville — 31.63°N, 93.64°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.42°N, 71.08°WArdath — 32.83°N, 117.23°WArdath — 32.91°N, 117.25°WSnatol'skaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°ESan Emigdio — 35.06°N, 119.18°WSan Emigdio — 35.03°N, 119.24°WScripps — 32.88°N, 117.25°WScripps — 32.88°N, 117.25°WScripps — 32.79°N, 117.18°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WTejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WTejon — 34.92°N, 118.97°WAinoura — 33.16°N, 129.72°EMartinez — 38.00°N, 122.20°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.60°WCastle Hayne — 34.44°N, 77.89°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WFlint River — 30.91°N, 84.58°WMission Valley — 32.79°N, 117.15°WCook Mountain — 30.01°N, 97.16°WSilverado — 33.81°N, 117.68°WTalara — 5.13°S, 81.17°WParkini Mudstone — 25.50°N, 63.33°EOrmara & Jiwani — 25.25°N, 62.25°EMancora — 5.20°S, 80.63°WLa Rosa — 10.46°N, 71.03°W

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The named rock units Pitaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pitaria and its relatives

Eocene

Where Pitaria and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,312 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Pitaria, 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

37 references

Each of the 114 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. 25 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 content1

Picture of Pitaria

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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. (Roemer 1857)