Corbicula astartoides

Corbicula astartoides

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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 most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 31 of 31 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 31 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84.1 Mya65.5 Mya

31 occurrences of Corbicula astartoides on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

31 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

Jalama — 34.53°N, 120.41°WCabrillo — 32.68°N, 117.24°W

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The named rock units Corbicula astartoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Corbicula astartoides and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Corbicula astartoides and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

119 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Corbicula astartoides, 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

3 references

Each of the 31 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 astartoides

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Corbicula astartoides 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 through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dailey and Popenoe 1966