Pitaria intica
No picture of Pitaria intica 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 Pitaria intica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PitariaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Pitaria intica 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
- Ardath Formation · La Jolla Group3
- Scripps Formation · La Jolla Group1
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The named rock units Pitaria intica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pitaria intica and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pitaria intica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Glycymeris (Glycymeris) rosecanyonensis3 sites
- Turritella uvasana applinae3 sites
- Bittium cliffensis2 sites
- Ectinochilus (Macilentos) macilentus2 sites
- Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia) domenginica2 sites
- Pitar (Lamelliconcha) joaquinensis2 sites
- Rimella supraplicata2 sites
- Tejonia moragai2 sites
- Turritella andersoni lawsoni2 sites
- Turritella scrippsensis2 sites
- Xenophora stocki2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa1 site
- Adula mcknighti1 site
- Agnocardia sorrentoensis1 site
- Antigona kelloggi1 site
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) cliffensis1 site
- Corbula cliffensis1 site
- Corbula wardii1 site
- Crassatella mulates1 site
- Crassatella uvasana1 site
- Eocernina hannibali1 site
- Ficopsis remondii1 site
- Flabellum sandiegoense1 site
- Fusinus teglandae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pitaria intica, 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
2 references- Eocene molluscan stages and their correlation, San Diego area, California3
- An Eocene invertebrate fauna from the La Jolla Quadrangle, California1
Each of the 4 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
Media content0
No picture of Pitaria intica 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 Pitaria intica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pitaria intica was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPitaria through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hanna 1927)