Varicorbula laqueata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Corbula (Varicorbula)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Corbula (Varicorbula)
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Corbula (Varicorbula)
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Corbula (Varicorbula)
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 6.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 0 of 44 occurrencesOligocene — about 44 of 44 occurrencesOligocene34–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34.4 Mya26.8 Mya

44 occurrences of Varicorbula laqueata on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

44 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

3 formations

Byram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 31.98°N, 89.42°WMint Spring — 32.27°N, 89.99°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WMint Spring — 32.36°N, 90.87°WMint Spring — 32.47°N, 90.84°WChickasawhay — 31.69°N, 88.65°W

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The named rock units Varicorbula laqueata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Varicorbula laqueata and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Varicorbula laqueata and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

250 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Varicorbula laqueata, 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

4 references

Each of the 44 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 content0

No picture of Varicorbula laqueata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Varicorbula laqueata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Varicorbula laqueata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 (Varicorbula) through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Casey 1903)