Hexacorbula

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CorbulidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 84 occurrencesMiocene — about 75 of 84 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 84 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 84 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 8 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 8 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 8 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 6 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.7–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–1.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences20.45 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

84 occurrences of Hexacorbula on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

84 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

18 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.88°WCulebra — 9.05°N, 79.65°WCulebra — 9.76°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.64°WCastilletes — 11.94°N, 71.32°WCastilletes — 11.96°N, 71.26°WFerrotepec — 18.03°N, 103.60°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WTuira — 8.47°N, 77.70°WTuira — 8.35°N, 78.07°WTuira — 8.19°N, 77.71°WAngostura — 1.09°N, 78.99°WAngostura — 0.97°N, 79.57°WMunguidó — 4.32°N, 76.93°WMunguidó — 4.25°N, 77.33°WCaujarao — 11.46°N, 69.32°WZorritos — 3.80°S, 80.50°WPuerto Madryn — 42.97°S, 64.31°WBaitoa — 18.47°N, 71.05°WSwan Cay — 9.45°N, 82.30°WAlhajuela — 9.22°N, 79.62°WLa Vela — 11.00°N, 69.83°WLimónes — 10.00°N, 83.22°WJimol — 11.85°N, 71.33°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.58°W

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The named rock units Hexacorbula 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.

Hexacorbula and its relatives

Miocene

Where Hexacorbula and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

557 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Hexacorbula, 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

16 references

Each of the 84 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Hexacorbula 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 Hexacorbula, 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Olsson 1932)