Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis

Corbula alabamiensis I.Lea, 1833, a relative of Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis — not Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis itself

Not Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis. This is Corbula alabamiensis I.Lea, 1833, a relative — both are Corbulidae.

via GBIF · 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
Corbula (Caryocorbula)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Corbula
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Corbula
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Corbula
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 65 occurrencesEocene — about 65 of 65 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 65 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 10 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 11 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 11 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 11 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 5 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41.03 Mya37.71 Mya56.5 Mya33.4 Mya

65 occurrences of Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis 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

65 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

7 formations

Gosport 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°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°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°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°WKosciusko — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°W

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The named rock units Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis 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.

Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis and its relatives

Eocene

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

Found in the same rock

529 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis, 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

10 references

Each of the 65 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 alabamiensis I.Lea, 1833

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis 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 itCorbula (Caryocorbula) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lea 1833)