Claraia bittneri
No picture of Claraia bittneri was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Claraia bittneri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClaraiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Pectinida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At most 1.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.902 Mya and 250.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Claraia bittneri on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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
4 occurrences- Early Triassic100%
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 Claraia bittneri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Claraia bittneri and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Claraia bittneri and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Unionites bittneri2 sites
- Claraia aurita1 site
- Claraia clarai1 site
- Claraia intermedia1 site
- Claraia radialis1 site
- Eumorphotis multiformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Claraia bittneri, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Lower Triassic (Induan to Olenekian) conodonts, foraminifera and bivalves from the Al Mamalih area, Dead Sea, Jordan: constraints on the P-T boundary3
- First report of Claraia (Bivalvia) in the Servino Formation (Lower Triassic) of the Western Orobic Alps, Italy1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Claraia bittneri was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Claraia bittneri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Claraia bittneri 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 itClaraia through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ichikawa 1958