Corbula (Tenuicorbula)

Tenuicorbula lyoni (Pilsbry, 1897), a relative of Corbula (Tenuicorbula) — not Corbula (Tenuicorbula) itself

Not Corbula (Tenuicorbula). This is Tenuicorbula lyoni (Pilsbry, 1897), a relative — both are Corbulidae.

Valentín Alfano · 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
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 24 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesMiocene — about 14 of 24 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 24 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 24 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences48.07 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

24 occurrences of Corbula (Tenuicorbula) on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

24 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

11 formations

Springvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WZorritos — 3.67°S, 80.65°WZorritos — 3.80°S, 80.50°WJama — 0.18°S, 80.32°WFerrotepec — 18.03°N, 103.60°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WCastilletes — 11.94°N, 71.32°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WSilantek — 0.88°N, 111.98°EPacific Muck — 8.93°N, 79.56°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°W

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The named rock units Corbula (Tenuicorbula) 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 (Tenuicorbula) and its relatives

Miocene

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

Found in the same rock

1,038 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Corbula (Tenuicorbula), 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

13 references

Each of the 24 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. 1 further reference is 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 Tenuicorbula lyoni (Pilsbry, 1897)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Valentín Alfano
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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.

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What may have been alongside itCorbula through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Olsson 1932)