Notocorbula rugosa

Not Notocorbula rugosa. This is Notocorbula rugosa (Lamarck, 1806), a relative — both are Corbulidae.
Natural History Museum Rotterdam · CC BY 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
- Corbula (Notocorbula)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Corbula (Notocorbula)
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Corbula (Notocorbula)
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Corbula (Notocorbula)
- 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 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
17 occurrences of Notocorbula rugosa 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
17 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Ameki Formation · Bende-Ameki Group7
- Banc à verrins Formation4
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group1
- Barton Clay Formation1
- Barton Beds Formation1
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The named rock units Notocorbula rugosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Notocorbula rugosa and its relatives
EoceneWhere Notocorbula rugosa and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
620 taxa- Loxocardium obliquum8 sites
- Bonellitia evulsa7 sites
- Cardita costaenodulosis7 sites
- Costacallista laevigata7 sites
- Cubitostrea plicata7 sites
- Fossularca africana7 sites
- Amekichilus suturocostatum6 sites
- Cochlis epiglottina6 sites
- Crassatella6 sites
- Crepidula falconeri6 sites
- Cyrtulotibia unidigitata6 sites
- Eovolva nigeriensis6 sites
- Haustator6 sites
- Ispharina sulcifera6 sites
- Protonoetia nigeriensis6 sites
- Rimella fissurella6 sites
- Stellaxis bicingulata6 sites
- Volutospina conicoturrita6 sites
- Cardium5 sites
- Caryocorbula striata5 sites
- Conospirus parisiensis5 sites
- Cylichna5 sites
- Elliptotellina tellinella5 sites
- Glycymeris5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Notocorbula rugosa, 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
7 references- Eocene Mollusca from Nigeria7
- The molluscs of the “Falunière” of Grignon (Middle Lutetian, Yvelines, France): quantification of lithification bias and its impact on the biodiversity assessment of the Middle Eocene of Western Europe4
- Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire2
- Distribution of Mollusca in Units S1 to S9 of the Selsey Formation (middle Lutetian), Selsey Peninsula, West Sussex1
- Skwarko, 19941
- Feeding habits of predatory gastropods in a Tertiary (Eocene) molluscan assemblage from the Paris Basin1
- Karagyuleva, 19641
Each of the 17 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 Notocorbula rugosa (Lamarck, 1806)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Natural History Museum Rotterdam
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 (Notocorbula) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1806)