Batissa

Batissa

Amada44 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
CorbiculidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Corbiculidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Corbiculidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Corbiculidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Corbiculidae

Time the record covers

At least 129 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 12 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 12 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 12 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 12 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 12 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 12 occurrences140–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences70–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.7–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence132.6 Mya3.6 Mya140 Mya0 Mya

12 occurrences of Batissa on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

12 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

6 formations

Renton — 47.53°N, 122.03°WSitsayan — 21.10°N, 94.80°EKamchikskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°EPucangan — 7.49°S, 110.00°ETaie — 36.29°N, 137.15°EFutagojima — 32.62°N, 129.55°E

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The named rock units Batissa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Batissa and its relatives

Eocene

Where Batissa and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

37 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Batissa, 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

7 references

Each of the 12 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 Batissa

Credit
Amada44
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Batissa 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCorbiculidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1853)