Corbula lyoni

Not Corbula lyoni. This is Corbula lyoni Pilsbry, 1897, a relative — both are Corbulidae.
Rush, W. H. · 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, for Corbula
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Corbula
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Corbula
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Corbula lyoni on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
7 occurrences- Pleistocene14%
- Holocene86%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Corbula lyoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Corbula lyoni and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Corbula lyoni and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
111 taxa- Agathistoma patagonicum6 sites
- Erodona mactroides6 sites
- Heleobia australis6 sites
- Nucula (Lamellinucula) semiornata6 sites
- Atilia4 sites
- Brachiodontes4 sites
- Carditamera plata4 sites
- Notocochlis isabelleana4 sites
- Olivella (Olivina) tehuelchana4 sites
- Ostrea equestris4 sites
- Pitar rostratus4 sites
- Tagelus plebeius4 sites
- Bostrycapulus aculeatus3 sites
- Buccinanops3 sites
- Ennucula puelcha3 sites
- Turbonilla3 sites
- Adelomelon2 sites
- Adelomelon ancilla2 sites
- Amiantis2 sites
- Anachis isabellei2 sites
- Brachiodontes rodriguezi2 sites
- Buccinanops deformis2 sites
- Buccinanops globulosum2 sites
- Buccinanops gradatum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Corbula lyoni, 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
2 references- Paleontologia de los sedimentos marinos holocenos de los alrededores de Bahia Blanca, Provincia de Buenos Aires6
- Taphonomy of the Late Pleistocene marine molluscan assemblages from Uruguay1
Each of the 7 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 lyoni Pilsbry, 1897
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Rush, W. H.
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Corbula lyoni 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 HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pilsbry 1897