Corbicula

Corbicula is a genus of freshwater and brackish water clams, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Cyrenidae, the basket clams. The genus name is the Neo-Latin diminutive of Latin corbis, a basket, referring to the shape and ribs of the shell.

Corbicula

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CorbiculidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Corbiculidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Corbiculidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Corbiculidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Corbiculidae

Time the record covers

At least 199 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 270 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 270 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 270 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 270 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 270 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 58 of 270 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 41 of 270 occurrencesEocene — about 76 of 270 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 31 of 270 occurrencesMiocene — about 18 of 270 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 270 occurrencesPleistocene — about 16 of 270 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 2 occurrences199–192 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences192–185 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences178–171 Mya — about 4 occurrences171–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–130 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences130–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences110–103 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–89 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences89–82 Mya — about 5 occurrences82–75 Mya — about 21 occurrences75–68 Mya — about 23 occurrences68–62 Mya — about 39 occurrences62–55 Mya — about 12 occurrences55–48 Mya — about 9 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 22 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 41 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 28 occurrences27–21 Mya — about 6 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–6.8 Mya — about 11 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 36 occurrences199.5 Mya11.7 ka205 Mya0 Mya

270 occurrences of Corbicula on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

270 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

94 formations

Jalama — 34.53°N, 120.41°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.98°WLefipán — 42.69°S, 69.84°WEscondido — 29.24°N, 99.23°WEscondido — 29.25°N, 99.24°WEscondido — 29.06°N, 100.06°WEscondido — 28.88°N, 100.26°WYubetsu — 42.98°N, 144.38°EYubetsu — 43.25°N, 144.08°EShakubetsu — 42.98°N, 144.38°EShakubetsu — 43.25°N, 144.08°ECowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WCowlitz — 46.19°N, 123.02°WStepovak — 55.65°N, 160.27°WStepovak — 55.66°N, 160.23°WStepovak — 55.64°N, 159.67°WKamchikskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°EShitakara — 42.98°N, 144.38°EShitakara — 43.25°N, 144.08°EWoolwich and Reading — 51.52°N, 0.08°WTolstoi — 55.37°N, 161.47°WTolstoi — 55.53°N, 161.42°WTolstoi — 55.46°N, 161.46°WVerkhneduyskaya — 49.11°N, 142.90°EAllen — 39.12°S, 67.69°WNapanskaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°EWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.29°N, 78.51°WWaccamaw — 34.23°N, 77.94°WNizhneduyskaya — 50.82°N, 142.13°EHiragishi — 43.50°N, 142.00°ETeshibetsu — 43.00°N, 144.42°ETainohata — 34.75°N, 135.17°EFlournoy — 43.31°N, 123.09°WFlournoy — 43.02°N, 123.94°WEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°EEtolonskaya — 58.42°N, 159.00°ESanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°ENutovskaya — 52.57°N, 143.23°E

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The named rock units Corbicula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 70 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Corbicula and its relatives

Eocene

Where Corbicula and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,264 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 157 sites for Corbicula, 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

78 references

Each of the 270 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. 66 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Corbicula

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Laser scan

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Specimen
Corbicula sp. · ypm:ip:YPM IP 616553

3D model

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The description on this site

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What may have been alongside itCorbiculidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Megerle 1811)