Caryocorbula cuneata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CaryocorbulaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Caryocorbula
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Caryocorbula
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Caryocorbula
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 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 9 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 14 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 14 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 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence785 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Caryocorbula cuneata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

14 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

Choptank — 38.53°N, 76.52°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.41°N, 76.48°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WSt Mary's — 38.36°N, 76.39°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°W

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The named rock units Caryocorbula cuneata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caryocorbula cuneata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Caryocorbula cuneata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

627 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Caryocorbula cuneata, 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

8 references

Each of the 14 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

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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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Say 1824)