Cardium (Cerastoderma) corbis

Cardium corbis Martyn, 1784, a relative of Cardium (Cerastoderma) corbis — not Cardium (Cerastoderma) corbis itself

Not Cardium (Cerastoderma) corbis. This is Cardium corbis Martyn, 1784, a relative — both are Cardiidae.

H.N. Lowe · CC BY-NC 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
Also called
Pacific cocklePBDB
Sits inside
CerastodermaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cardiidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Cardiidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Cardium (Cerastoderma) corbis on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

13 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

5 formations

Etchegoin — 36.28°N, 120.30°WEtchegoin — 36.23°N, 120.31°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WSanta Barbara — 34.40°N, 119.69°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.17°WVaqueros — 34.59°N, 120.23°W

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The named rock units Cardium (Cerastoderma) corbis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cardium (Cerastoderma) corbis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cardium (Cerastoderma) corbis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

436 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Cardium (Cerastoderma) corbis, 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 13 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 Cardium corbis Martyn, 1784

Source
GBIF
Credit
H.N. Lowe
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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 itCerastoderma through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Martyn 1784)