Carbonicola

Carbonicola is an extinct genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks that lived during the Carboniferous period.

Carbonicola

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
AnthracosiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 326.9 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 330.3 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 9 of 11 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 11 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 11 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences329–326 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences324–321 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences321–318 Mya — about 2 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 5 occurrences316–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–310 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences310–307 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–288 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences286–283 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences283–280 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences278–275 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences275–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences272–269 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–261 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326.9 Mya290.1 Mya332 Mya250 Mya

11 occurrences of Carbonicola on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

11 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

4 formations

Pennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.53°N, 2.51°WWichita — 33.69°N, 99.03°WStainmore — 54.58°N, 3.53°WAssise 3éme — 43.26°N, 5.79°W

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The named rock units Carbonicola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carbonicola and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Carbonicola and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

108 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Carbonicola, 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

Each of the 11 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 Carbonicola

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Carbonicola 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAnthracosiidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. MacCoy 1855