Pitaria (Pitaria)

Pitaria Dall, 1902, a relative of Pitaria (Pitaria) — not Pitaria (Pitaria) itself

Not Pitaria (Pitaria). This is Pitaria Dall, 1902, a relative — both are Veneridae.

via GBIF · CC0 · 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
PitariaPBDB
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 7.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Paleocene — about 12 of 18 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 18 occurrencesEocene60–59 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56 Mya48.07 Mya59.7 Mya40.5 Mya

18 occurrences of Pitaria (Pitaria) on record. 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

18 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

4 formations

Pendleton 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°WCook Mountain — 30.01°N, 97.16°WSabinetown Bluff — 31.40°N, 93.71°W

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The named rock units Pitaria (Pitaria) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pitaria (Pitaria), and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 18 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 content1

Picture of Pitaria Dall, 1902

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

No 3D scan of Pitaria (Pitaria) was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPitaria through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roemer 1857