Corbula carolinensis
No picture of Corbula carolinensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Corbula carolinensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Corbula carolinensis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
9 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
- Black Creek Formation7
- Snow Hill Formation · Black Creek Group1
- Eutaw Formation1
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The named rock units Corbula carolinensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Corbula carolinensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Corbula carolinensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
141 taxa- Trigonarca8 sites
- Anomia7 sites
- Cardium7 sites
- Hamulus7 sites
- Crassatella carolinensis6 sites
- Nucula percrassa6 sites
- Pecten6 sites
- Serpula6 sites
- Aphrodina5 sites
- Arca5 sites
- Bivalvia5 sites
- Cymbophora5 sites
- Cymella5 sites
- Glycymeris5 sites
- Legumen5 sites
- Linearis5 sites
- Veniella conradi5 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata4 sites
- Cyprimeria4 sites
- Flemingostrea cretacea4 sites
- Lima4 sites
- Nemodon eufaulensis4 sites
- Nuculana4 sites
- Ostrea4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Corbula carolinensis, 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- The Cretaceous formations6
- The Black Creek-Peedee formational contact (Upper Cretaceous) in the Cape Fear river region of North Carolina2
- Cretaceous deposits of the eastern gulf region and species of Exogyra from the eastern gulf region and the Carolinas1
Each of the 9 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
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No picture of Corbula carolinensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Corbula carolinensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Corbula carolinensis 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 Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1875