Bicorbula kutchensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BicorbulaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Corbulidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Corbulidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Corbulidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 5 of 5 occurrencesEocene60–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48.07 Mya41.03 Mya59.7 Mya37.2 Mya

5 occurrences of Bicorbula kutchensis 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

5 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

2 formations

Harudi — 23.53°N, 68.68°EHarudi — 23.58°N, 68.61°EHarudi — 23.64°N, 68.67°ENaredi — 23.58°N, 68.65°E

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The named rock units Bicorbula kutchensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Bicorbula kutchensis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Bicorbula kutchensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Bicorbula kutchensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 5 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

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No picture of Bicorbula kutchensis 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 Bicorbula kutchensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Bicorbula kutchensis 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 itBicorbula through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Halder and Bano 2015