Pleiorytis caroniana

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PleiorytisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Petricolina
- Life habit
- boringPBDB, for Petricolina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Petricolina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
3 occurrences of Pleiorytis caroniana on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 Pleiorytis caroniana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pleiorytis caroniana and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pleiorytis caroniana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
245 taxa- Macrocallista maculata3 sites
- Anomia simplex2 sites
- Antillophos2 sites
- Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis nobilis2 sites
- Argopecten demiurgus2 sites
- Cancellaria2 sites
- Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus2 sites
- Clementia (Clementia) dariena2 sites
- Conus (Lithoconus) couvaensis2 sites
- Eburna caroniana2 sites
- Euclia montserratensis2 sites
- Florimetis trinitaria2 sites
- Fusinus2 sites
- Haustellum messorium2 sites
- Hindsiclava henekeni2 sites
- Latirus (Polygona) infundibulum2 sites
- Lirophora2 sites
- Naticarius canrena2 sites
- Oliva couvana2 sites
- Oliva cylindrica2 sites
- Pecten (Pecten)2 sites
- Polinices stanislasmeunieri2 sites
- Prunum calypsonis2 sites
- Prunum springvalensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pleiorytis caroniana, 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
3 references- Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad1
- Miocene Mollusca from the Paraguana Peninsula, Venezuela1
- Upper Miocene Mollusca from Springvale, Trinidad, British West Indies1
Each of the 3 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 Pleiorytis caroniana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pleiorytis caroniana 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 itPleiorytis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Maury 1925)