Corbula engonata
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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 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
62 occurrences of Corbula engonata on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
62 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
5 formations
- Byram Formation · Vicksburg Group36
- Red Bluff Formation · Vicksburg Group11
- Mint Spring Formation6
- Forest Hill Formation1
- Byram Marl Formation1
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The named rock units Corbula engonata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Corbula engonata and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Corbula engonata and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
363 taxa- Nucula vicksburgensis21 sites
- Pitar20 sites
- Verticordia18 sites
- Eburneopecten (Eburneopecten) subminutus16 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) carsonensis16 sites
- Dentalium15 sites
- Astarte triangulata14 sites
- Agnocardia glebosum13 sites
- Ervilia13 sites
- Ficus mississippiensis13 sites
- Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis13 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) diversum12 sites
- Pteria argentea12 sites
- Mitra11 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) eocenense11 sites
- Ringicula mississippiensis11 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) invidiosa11 sites
- Varicorbula laqueata11 sites
- Yoldia clydoniona11 sites
- Cadulus10 sites
- Callista10 sites
- Conus sauridens10 sites
- Lirophora (Lirophora) victoria10 sites
- Tropisurcula10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Corbula engonata, 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
5 references- Testing for patterns of faunal persistence in the early Oligocene Byram Formation of Mississippi30
- Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi19
- Mollusca of the Tertiary formations of Northeastern Mexico7
- Paleoecological patterns in molluscan extinctions and recoveries: comparison of the Cretaceous-Paleogene and Eocene-Oligocene extinctions in North America5
- Observations on the Eocene formations, and descriptions of one hundred and five new fossils from that period, from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi; with an appendix1
Each of the 62 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 content0
No picture of Corbula engonata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Corbula engonata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1848