Corbicula (Corbicula)

Corbicula (Corbicula)

Brad Shine · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CorbiculaPBDB
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 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 16 occurrencesPaleocene — about 8 of 16 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 16 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 16 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesMiocene67–65 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59.24 Mya15.98 Mya67 Mya11 Mya

16 occurrences of Corbicula (Corbicula) on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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 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

10 formations

Kamchikskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°ENapanskaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°EYubetsu — 42.98°N, 144.38°ETainohata — 34.75°N, 135.17°EEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°ESnatol'skaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°ETkapravayamskaya — 60.87°N, 163.67°EKhulgunskaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°EShakubetsu — 42.98°N, 144.38°ELower Menkrawit — 1.50°N, 116.50°E

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

Corbicula (Corbicula) and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Corbicula (Corbicula) and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

353 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Corbicula (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

5 references

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 content3

Picture of Corbicula (Corbicula)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Brad Shine
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Laser scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Corbicula sp. · ypm:ip:YPM IP 616553

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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.

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What may have been alongside itCorbicula through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

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