Pitho
Pitho is a genus of spider crabs in the family Mithracidae.
CORBARI & POUPIN · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
- TychinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.
5 occurrences of Pitho on record. 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
5 occurrences- Pliocene20%
- Pleistocene20%
- Holocene60%
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
- Port Morant Formation · Coastal Group1
- Bowden Formation · Lower Coastal Group1
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The named rock units Pitho has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Calappa springeri2 sites
- Eurypanopeus2 sites
- Persephona punctata2 sites
- Petrochirus bahamensis2 sites
- Callinectes1 site
- Callinectes sapidus1 site
- Cancer1 site
- Cardisoma guanhumi1 site
- Carpilius corallinus1 site
- Chlorilia sp.1 site
- Eriphia1 site
- Eriphia gonagra1 site
- Eurytium1 site
- Eurytium limosum1 site
- Garthiope spinipes1 site
- Glypturus acanthochirus1 site
- Hepatus1 site
- Hepatus praecox1 site
- Hexapanopeus1 site
- Hyas1 site
- Mesorhoea sexspinosa1 site
- Mithrax1 site
- Mithrax hispidus1 site
- Mithrax verrucosus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pitho, 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
4 references- Notes on North American Crustacea, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. No. II2
- A field guide to the Cretaceous and Cenozoic fossil decapod crustacean localities of Jamaica1
- Decapod, stomatopod and cirripede Crustacea from the Pliocene Bowden shell bed, St Thomas parish, Jamaica1
- Notes on North American Crustacea1
Each of the 5 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.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Pitho
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- CORBARI & POUPIN
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pitho 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Pitho”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTychinae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bell 1836