Pitar (Calpitaria)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PitarPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pitar
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Pitar
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pitar
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
62 occurrences of Pitar (Calpitaria) on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
62 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
18 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group9
- London Clay Formation8
- Stone City Formation5
- Tallahatta Formation · Claiborne Group5
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group5
- Reklaw Formation · Claiborne Group4
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The named rock units Pitar (Calpitaria) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pitar (Calpitaria) and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pitar (Calpitaria) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,313 taxa- Odostomia17 sites
- Acteon15 sites
- Corbula15 sites
- Nucula13 sites
- Venericardia13 sites
- Caryocorbula deusseni12 sites
- Clavilithes12 sites
- Crassatella12 sites
- Dentalium12 sites
- Nemocardium12 sites
- Tellina11 sites
- Turricula11 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta10 sites
- Chama10 sites
- Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica10 sites
- Euspira10 sites
- Ficus10 sites
- Omalaxis10 sites
- Polinices10 sites
- Ringicula10 sites
- Sinum10 sites
- Turritella10 sites
- Bonellitia9 sites
- Eopleurotoma9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Pitar (Calpitaria), 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
28 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals10
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda8
- Pelecypoda from the type locality of the Stone City beds (Middle Eocene) of Texas5
- Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain3
- The Early Eocene London Clay Formation mollusc fauna of the former Bursledon Brickworks, Lower Swanwick, Hampshire3
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area3
- The Molluscan Macrofauna of the Reklaw Formation, Marquez Member (Eocene: Lower Claibornian), in Texas2
- Distribution of Mollusca in Units S1 to S9 of the Selsey Formation (middle Lutetian), Selsey Peninsula, West Sussex2
- Fossils from the Bracklesham Group exposed in the M27 Motorway excavations, Southampton, Hampshire2
- The London Clay and associated deposits exposed in Chichester Harbour (West Sussex)2
- Les Bivalves et Gastéropodes du Bruxellien inférieur de la Belgique (Eocène moyen)2
- Additions to the Eocene Bivalvia of Egypt2
Each of the 62 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. 16 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
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No picture of Pitar (Calpitaria) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Pitar (Calpitaria), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pitar (Calpitaria) 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 itPitar through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jukes-Browne 1908)