Corbulamella

Corbulamella is a genus of extinct bivalves in the family Corbulidae.

Corbulamella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CorbulamellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Corbulidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Corbulidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Corbulidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 11 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 11 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesEocene102–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–63 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93.9 Mya56 Mya102 Mya47 Mya

11 occurrences of Corbulamella 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

11 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

London Clay — 51.08°N, 1.17°WLondon Clay — 51.23°N, 0.85°WMaastrichtian chalk — 56.97°N, 9.68°ERødvig — 56.97°N, 9.68°EFox Hills — 45.14°N, 100.88°WMelovatka — 50.88°N, 44.74°EKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°W

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The named rock units Corbulamella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Corbulamella and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Corbulamella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

426 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Corbulamella, 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 11 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 Corbulamella

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Corbulamella 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCorbulamellinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek 1857