Bittium reticulatum

Bittium reticulatum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cerithiidae.

Bittium reticulatum

Holger Krisp · 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
BittiumPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 45 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 45 occurrencesMiocene — about 11 of 45 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 45 occurrencesPleistocene — about 25 of 45 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 24 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

45 occurrences of Bittium reticulatum 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

45 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

12 formations

Gniew — 53.85°N, 19.17°EVistula — 53.94°N, 19.33°ESabbie di Asti — 44.90°N, 8.20°ESabbie di Asti — 43.32°N, 11.33°EGavdos — 34.83°N, 24.08°EApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°EKourtes — 35.20°N, 25.10°EKef El Haroun — 33.58°N, 7.65°WPanchina — 43.57°N, 10.35°EVienna Basin — 47.95°N, 16.20°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EFaluns de la Touraine — 47.40°N, 1.23°ERhodes — 36.43°N, 28.20°E

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The named rock units Bittium reticulatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bittium reticulatum and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Bittium reticulatum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,072 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Bittium reticulatum, 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

21 references

Each of the 45 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. 9 further references are not listed. 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 Bittium reticulatum

Credit
Holger Krisp
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bittium reticulatum 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBittium through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Montagu 1803)