Pitar (Pitar) ovatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Pitar (Pitar)PBDB
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 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Paleocene — about 3 of 20 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 17 of 20 occurrencesEocene60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56 Mya41.03 Mya59.7 Mya37.2 Mya

20 occurrences of Pitar (Pitar) ovatus 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

20 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

4 formations

Nanjemoy — 38.40°N, 76.99°WNanjemoy — 38.51°N, 77.02°WNanjemoy — 38.70°N, 76.97°WNanjemoy — 38.82°N, 76.75°WNanjemoy — 37.65°N, 77.17°WNanjemoy — 38.27°N, 77.18°WNanjemoy — 37.77°N, 77.37°WNanjemoy — 37.30°N, 77.16°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WVincentown — 39.93°N, 74.78°WMcBean — 33.60°N, 80.65°WAquia — 38.50°N, 77.59°W

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The named rock units Pitar (Pitar) ovatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pitar (Pitar) ovatus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Pitar (Pitar) ovatus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

196 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pitar (Pitar) ovatus, 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

5 references

Each of the 20 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Pitar (Pitar) ovatus 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 Pitar (Pitar) ovatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pitar (Pitar) ovatus 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 (Pitar) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rogers and Rogers 1837)