Pitar simiensis
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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 most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Pitar simiensis 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
16 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Pitar simiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pitar simiensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Pitar simiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum8 sites
- Turritella infragranulata pachecoensis8 sites
- Cucullaea mathewsonii7 sites
- Glycimeris major7 sites
- Tellina (Saulella) undulifera7 sites
- Ostrea5 sites
- Solena (Eosolen) stantoni5 sites
- Dentalium cooperi4 sites
- Macrocallista caryi4 sites
- Pholadomya (Pholadomya) nasuta4 sites
- Ringicula (Ringicula) pinguis4 sites
- Tellina (Angulus) simiensis4 sites
- Amauropsis martinezensis3 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana3 sites
- Claibornites (Codalucina) muirensis3 sites
- Polinices susanaensis3 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa2 sites
- Bruetia traski2 sites
- Crassatella2 sites
- Euspira susanaensis2 sites
- Eutrephoceras stephensoni2 sites
- Lyria hannibali2 sites
- Mesalia martinezensis2 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Pitar simiensis, 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
3 references- A contribution to the paleontology of the Martinez Eocene of California11
- Geology of the eastern part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California4
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.1
Each of the 16 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 content0
No picture of Pitar simiensis 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 simiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pitar simiensis 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 PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Nelson 1925)