Corbicula (Loxoptychodon) cuneiformis

Corbicula (Loxoptychodon) cuneiformis

Bezançon · CC BY 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
Corbicula (Loxoptychodon)PBDB
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 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 4 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEocene67–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59.24 Mya41.03 Mya66.6 Mya37.1 Mya

4 occurrences of Corbicula (Loxoptychodon) cuneiformis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

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

1 formation

Woolwich and Reading — 51.52°N, 0.08°W

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The named rock units Corbicula (Loxoptychodon) cuneiformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Corbicula (Loxoptychodon) cuneiformis and its relatives

Paleocene

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

Found in the same rock

280 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Corbicula (Loxoptychodon) cuneiformis, 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

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 content1

Picture of Corbicula (Loxoptychodon) cuneiformis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Bezançon
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Corbicula (Loxoptychodon) cuneiformis 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1817)