Barbatia illota
Sowerby, 1833 · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
- BarbatiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Barbatia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Barbatia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Barbatia
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Arcidae
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Arcidae
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
3 occurrences of Barbatia illota on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene33%
- Pleistocene67%
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
- Armuelles Formation · Charco Azul Group1
- San Diego Formation1
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The named rock units Barbatia illota 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.
Barbatia illota and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Barbatia illota and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
326 taxa- Argopecten ventricosus3 sites
- Anomia peruviana2 sites
- Calyptraea mamillaris2 sites
- Caryocorbula biradiata2 sites
- Columbella2 sites
- Crucibulum spinosum2 sites
- Cryptomya californica2 sites
- Diplodonta orbella2 sites
- Euvola vogdesi2 sites
- Laevicardium substriatum2 sites
- Lirophora mariae2 sites
- Megapitaria squalida2 sites
- Mexicardia procera2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Polinices uber2 sites
- Raeta undulata2 sites
- Tellidora burnetti2 sites
- Thracia (Cyathodonta)2 sites
- Turritella2 sites
- Acanthina1 site
- Acila (Truncacila) castrensis1 site
- Acirsa cerralvoensis1 site
- Acteocina inculta1 site
- Adeona violacea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Barbatia illota, 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- Paleoecology and paleoenvironments of the Pleistocene deposits of Bahia la Choya (Gulf of California, Sonora, Mexico)1
- The Geology and Paleontology of the Marine Pliocene of San Diego, California (Paleontology: Pelecypoda)1
- Tertiary and Quaternary fossils from Burica Peninsula of Panama and Costa Rica1
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 Barbatia illota
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Sowerby, 1833
- 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBarbatia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1833)