Corbula extenuata

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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 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 29 occurrencesEocene — about 29 of 29 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 29 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.3 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 3 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41.03 Mya37.71 Mya56.5 Mya33.4 Mya

29 occurrences of Corbula extenuata 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

29 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

6 formations

Lisbon — 31.53°N, 87.60°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.32°N, 86.73°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.55°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WMcBean — 33.32°N, 81.64°WMcBean — 33.56°N, 80.09°WMcBean — 33.49°N, 80.86°WNanjemoy — 37.52°N, 76.79°WBarnwell Sand — 33.56°N, 81.72°W

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The named rock units Corbula extenuata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Corbula extenuata and its relatives

Eocene

Where Corbula extenuata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

344 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Corbula extenuata, 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

6 references

Each of the 29 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 extenuata 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 extenuata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Corbula extenuata 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 through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1898