Bothrocorbula (Hexacorbula) gatunensis

Not Bothrocorbula (Hexacorbula) gatunensis. This is Bothrocorbula gatunensis (Toula, 1909), a relative — both are Corbulidae.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HexacorbulaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hexacorbula
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Hexacorbula
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Hexacorbula
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
35 occurrences of Bothrocorbula (Hexacorbula) gatunensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
35 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
8 formations
- Gatun Formation24
- Ferrotepec Formation3
- Tubará Formation2
- Tuira Formation2
- Angostura Formation1
- La Vela Formation1
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The named rock units Bothrocorbula (Hexacorbula) gatunensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bothrocorbula (Hexacorbula) gatunensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Bothrocorbula (Hexacorbula) gatunensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
395 taxa- Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis13 sites
- Bivetiella dariena12 sites
- Cadulus (Platyschides)12 sites
- Macrocallista maculata12 sites
- Polystira12 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum11 sites
- Ervilia valhosierr11 sites
- Oliva gatunensis11 sites
- Strioterebrum spiriferum11 sites
- Anadara10 sites
- Bellucina actinus10 sites
- Hindsiclava consors10 sites
- Psammacoma gatunensis10 sites
- Alveinus rotundus9 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) dariensis9 sites
- Caryocorbula prenasuta9 sites
- Cruziturricula fusinus9 sites
- Lirophora (Panchione) mactropsis9 sites
- Stigmaulax guppiana9 sites
- Strombina (Strombina) lessepsiana9 sites
- Caryocorbula oropendula stena8 sites
- Clathrodrillia gatunensis8 sites
- Clementia (Clementia) dariena dariena8 sites
- Conus aemulator8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Bothrocorbula (Hexacorbula) gatunensis, 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
6 references- Geology and paleontology of canal zone and adjoing parts of Panama: Description of Tertiary mollusks (Pelecypods: Propeamussiidae to Cuspidariidae).24
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions5
- Bivalvos y gasterópodos de la formacion Ferrotepec (Mioceno Medio) de Michoacan3
- Spatial and stratigraphic variation in marine paleoenvironments in the Late Miocene Gatun Formation, Isthmus of Panama1
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
Each of the 35 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 content1

Picture of Bothrocorbula gatunensis (Toula, 1909)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bothrocorbula (Hexacorbula) gatunensis 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 itHexacorbula through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Toula 1909)