Caestocorbula wailesiana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CaestocorbulaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Caestocorbula
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Caestocorbula
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Caestocorbula
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
63 occurrences of Caestocorbula wailesiana 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
63 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
6 formations
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group50
- Yazoo Clay Formation · Jackson Group5
- Yazoo Formation · Jackson Group3
- Cockfield Formation2
- Tupelo Bay Formation1
- White Bluff Formation · Jackson Group1
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The named rock units Caestocorbula wailesiana 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.
Caestocorbula wailesiana and its relatives
EoceneWhere Caestocorbula wailesiana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
417 taxa- Corbula densata41 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus40 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata37 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis35 sites
- Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta32 sites
- Bathytormus flexurus31 sites
- Kapalmerella alveata30 sites
- Spisula jacksonensis30 sites
- Calyptraphorus stamineus29 sites
- Pitar securiformis29 sites
- Alveinus minutus28 sites
- Callista annexa28 sites
- Retusa jacksonensis27 sites
- Hipponix26 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta25 sites
- Hilgardia multilineata25 sites
- Tellinidae25 sites
- Actinopterygii23 sites
- Euspira jacksonensis23 sites
- Calorhadia (Litorhadia) mater22 sites
- Crassinella pygmaea22 sites
- Gastropoda22 sites
- Kapalmerella arenicola22 sites
- Bivalvia21 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Caestocorbula wailesiana, 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
9 references- Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi31
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region8
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area7
- Jackson Eocene mollusks7
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals4
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda3
- Timing of latest Eocene molluscan extinction patterns in Mississippi1
- New molluscan faunas from the Eocene of South Carolina1
- Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi1
Each of the 63 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
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No picture of Caestocorbula wailesiana 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 Caestocorbula wailesiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Caestocorbula wailesiana 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCaestocorbula through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.