Halobia zitteli

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HalobiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Ostreida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ostreida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ostreida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At least 31 million years on record.
The record covers at least 237 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
9 occurrences of Halobia zitteli on record, most of them in the Late 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
9 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Tschermakfjellet Formation · Kapp Toscana Group3
- De Geerdalen Formation · Sassendalen Group2
- Kapp Toscana Formation2
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The named rock units Halobia zitteli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Halobia zitteli and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Halobia zitteli and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Halobia hochstetteri2 sites
- Nathorstites macconnelli2 sites
- Stolleyites tenuis2 sites
- Anisocardia parvula1 site
- Aparimella1 site
- Arcestes1 site
- Arctophyllites taimyrensis1 site
- Bourguetia arata1 site
- Cardinia1 site
- Cladiscites1 site
- Conularia1 site
- Coronaria spectabilis1 site
- Curionia1 site
- Daxatina canadensis1 site
- Eumorphotis1 site
- Gervillia1 site
- Gryphaea1 site
- Halobia austriaca1 site
- Halobia superba1 site
- Homomya1 site
- Laballa suessi1 site
- Lima (Limatula) pichleri1 site
- Myophoria heslingtonensis1 site
- Nathorstites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Halobia zitteli, 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
8 references- The Trias of New Zealand2
- The Triassic bivalves Daonella and Halobia in New Zealand, New Caledonia, and Svalbard.1
- Fauna and stratigraphy of the uppermost Triassic and the Toarcian and Aalenian deposits in the Sassenfjorden, Spitsbergen1
- The Triassic succession of Barentsøya, Edgeøya, and Hopen (Svalbard)1
- The Triassic stratigraphy of Svalbard1
- The main features of the Geological structure of Barentsøya1
- Mesozoic deposits around Van Keulenfjorden Vestspitsbergen1
- Geology, Appendix III in Watkins H.G. The Cambridge Expedition to Edge Island1
Each of the 9 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 Halobia zitteli
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Halobia zitteli was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itHalobia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindstrom 1863