Corbula (Caryocorbula)

Caryocorbula striata (Lamarck, 1801), a relative of Corbula (Caryocorbula) — not Corbula (Caryocorbula) itself

Not Corbula (Caryocorbula). This is Caryocorbula striata (Lamarck, 1801), a relative — both are Corbulidae.

Stichting Observation International · 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
CorbulaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Corbula
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Corbula
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Corbula
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 774 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 237 occurrencesPaleocene — about 20 of 237 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 107 of 237 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 237 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 88 of 237 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 237 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 237 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 9 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 5 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–54 Mya — about 7 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 8 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 8 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 7 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 7 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 7 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 16 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 38 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 8 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 7 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 15 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 13 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 9 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 31 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 13 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences61.66 Mya2.58 Mya67 Mya0 Mya

237 occurrences of Corbula (Caryocorbula) on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

237 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

47 formations

Shoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WPirabas — 1.23°S, 47.40°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 2.58°S, 43.38°WPirabas — 2.41°S, 44.42°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.57°N, 87.58°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.32°N, 86.73°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WKincaid — 29.21°N, 99.79°WKincaid — 32.44°N, 96.23°WKincaid — 30.13°N, 97.47°WKincaid — 31.31°N, 96.63°WKincaid — 31.22°N, 96.91°WKincaid — 31.05°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 29.35°N, 99.14°WKincaid — 29.32°N, 99.47°WKincaid — 30.23°N, 97.52°WKincaid — 30.11°N, 97.32°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 31.53°N, 95.33°WCook Mountain — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCook Mountain — 30.18°N, 96.94°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.39°WCook Mountain — 31.43°N, 93.85°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 31.60°N, 87.55°WCook Mountain — 30.01°N, 97.16°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.06°N, 84.49°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WLlajas — 34.31°N, 118.70°WLlajas — 34.23°N, 118.77°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.55°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.48°WMcBean — 33.32°N, 81.64°WMcBean — 33.60°N, 80.65°WMcBean — 33.56°N, 80.09°WMcBean — 33.49°N, 80.86°WMcBean — 31.60°N, 85.03°WJuncal — 34.40°N, 118.48°WJuncal — 34.55°N, 118.72°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.72°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WOak Grove — 30.97°N, 86.46°WOak Grove — 30.87°N, 86.52°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WWills Point — 30.59°N, 97.30°WWills Point — 30.13°N, 97.47°WWills Point — 29.57°N, 97.90°WWills Point — 29.28°N, 98.61°WCercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.42°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WAgueguexquite — 18.14°N, 94.44°WAgueguexquite — 18.07°N, 94.32°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 30.69°N, 84.84°WPendleton Ferry — 31.82°N, 93.51°WPendleton Ferry — 31.47°N, 93.57°WPendleton Ferry — 31.35°N, 93.57°WCrescent — 47.31°N, 123.53°WCrescent — 47.73°N, 122.85°WJama — 0.18°S, 80.32°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WZorritos — 3.80°S, 80.50°WZorritos — 3.66°S, 80.66°WKosciusko — 32.04°N, 88.73°W

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The named rock units Corbula (Caryocorbula) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Corbula (Caryocorbula) and its relatives

Eocene

Where Corbula (Caryocorbula) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,647 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 144 sites for Corbula (Caryocorbula), and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

49 references

Each of the 237 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. 37 further references are not listed. 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 Caryocorbula striata (Lamarck, 1801)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Stichting Observation International
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Corbula (Caryocorbula) was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCorbula through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gardner 1926