Parmicorbula

Parmicorbula

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 78 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 16 of 111 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 77 of 111 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 111 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 17 of 111 occurrencesEocene123–120 Mya — about 6 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 6 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 3 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–100 Mya — about 3 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 13 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 13 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–88 Mya — about 1 occurrence88–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 3 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 9 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 16 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 11 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences62–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 10 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences119.57 Mya41.03 Mya123 Mya36 Mya

111 occurrences of Parmicorbula 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

111 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

Woodbine — 32.73°N, 97.22°WWoodbine — 32.86°N, 97.06°WWoodbine — 32.99°N, 96.95°WWoodbine — 33.81°N, 96.83°WWoodbine — 33.68°N, 96.45°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.45°WWoodbine — 31.95°N, 97.32°WWoodbine — 32.05°N, 97.23°WWoodbine — 32.84°N, 97.08°WWoodbine — 32.77°N, 97.01°WWoodbine — 33.76°N, 96.54°WWoodbine — 33.60°N, 96.37°WWoodbine — 33.67°N, 96.24°WWoodbine — 33.87°N, 95.57°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.57°N, 87.58°WAtherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.22°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WSandgate — 51.08°N, 1.18°ESandgate — 51.00°N, 0.85°WSandgate — 51.02°N, 0.94°WEnglishtown — 39.55°N, 75.70°WEnglishtown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMishash — 30.17°N, 35.00°ELewisville — 33.64°N, 96.61°WLewisville — 33.67°N, 96.34°WAbeih — 33.73°N, 35.53°EFerruginous Sands — 50.60°N, 1.32°WFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.72°WCrosswicks Clay — 39.54°N, 75.72°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WPeedee — 35.77°N, 78.64°WToreva — 35.74°N, 110.82°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°W

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The named rock units Parmicorbula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parmicorbula and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,382 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 94 sites for Parmicorbula, 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

17 references

Each of the 111 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. 5 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

Media content1

Picture of Parmicorbula

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Parmicorbula 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vokes 1944