Corbula (Bicorbula) harpa

Corbula harpa (Archaic & Haime, 1854), a relative of Corbula (Bicorbula) harpa — not Corbula (Bicorbula) harpa itself

Not Corbula (Bicorbula) harpa. This is Corbula harpa (Archaic & Haime, 1854), a relative — both are Corbulidae.

Rader, William · CC0 · 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
BicorbulaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Corbulidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Corbulidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Corbulidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Paleocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesMiocene60–59 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56 Mya15.98 Mya60.2 Mya10.7 Mya

5 occurrences of Corbula (Bicorbula) harpa on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

5 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

4 formations

Upper Bhuban — 22.88°N, 92.73°EUpper Bhuban — 23.00°N, 93.00°EBaghmara — 25.17°N, 90.67°EPatala — 32.65°N, 71.82°EFulra Dam — 23.58°N, 68.64°E

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

Corbula (Bicorbula) harpa and its relatives

Miocene

Where Corbula (Bicorbula) harpa and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Corbula (Bicorbula) harpa, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

4 references

Each of the 5 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 Corbula harpa (Archaic & Haime, 1854)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Rader, William
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Corbula (Bicorbula) harpa 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 itBicorbula through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Archaic and Haime 1854)