Pitar quadratus

Pitar quadratus

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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 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 15 occurrencesPaleocene — about 8 of 15 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 7 of 15 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59.24 Mya41.03 Mya66.6 Mya33.3 Mya

15 occurrences of Pitar quadratus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

15 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

3 formations

Martinez — 38.21°N, 122.02°WMartinez — 38.05°N, 122.15°WMartinez — 38.02°N, 122.10°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.60°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WTejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.91°N, 118.99°W

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The named rock units Pitar quadratus 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 quadratus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Pitar quadratus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

213 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Pitar quadratus, 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

4 references

Each of the 15 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Pitar quadratus

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 Pitar quadratus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)