Caryocorbula georgiana

Stichting Observation International · 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- 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 most 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Caryocorbula georgiana on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Caryocorbula georgiana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Caryocorbula georgiana and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Caryocorbula georgiana and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Cyprimeria2 sites
- Legumen carolinense2 sites
- Ostrea (Lopha) ucheensis2 sites
- Anomia preolmstedi1 site
- Flemingostrea cretacea1 site
- Pseudoptera securiformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Caryocorbula georgiana, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Caryocorbula georgiana
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Stichting Observation International
- 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 itCaryocorbula through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stephenson 1956