Corbicula olequahensis

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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 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Corbicula olequahensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
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The named rock units Corbicula olequahensis 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 olequahensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Corbicula olequahensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- Bursa2 sites
- Bursa washingtoniana2 sites
- Cyclinella elevata2 sites
- Dentalium stramineum2 sites
- Exilia dickersoni2 sites
- Melania fettkei2 sites
- Mitra washingtoniana2 sites
- Olivella mathewsonii2 sites
- Rimella elongata2 sites
- Turritella uvasana2 sites
- Acila1 site
- Acutostrea idriaensis1 site
- Acutostrea idriaensis fettkei1 site
- Amphissa1 site
- Ancillaria bretzi1 site
- Barbatia cowlitzensis1 site
- Barbatia landesi1 site
- Bonellitia (Admetula) paucivaricata1 site
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis1 site
- Cadulus (Platyschides) gabbi1 site
- Calyptraea diegoana1 site
- Cantharus perrini1 site
- Caryocorbula hornii1 site
- Cerithiopsis washingtoniana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Corbicula olequahensis, 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- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington1
- Fauna of the Type Tejon: Its relation to the Cowlitz Phase of the Tejon Group of Washington1
- A preliminary report on the Tertiary paleontology of western Washington1
Each of the 3 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 Corbicula olequahensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCorbicula through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Weaver 1912)