Corbiculidae

Cyrenidae is a family of clams in the order Venerida.

Corbiculidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CorbiculoideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
brackish,freshwaterPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 205 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 567 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 567 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 567 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 41 of 567 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 38 of 567 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 48 of 567 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 128 of 567 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 50 of 567 occurrencesEocene — about 105 of 567 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 72 of 567 occurrencesMiocene — about 32 of 567 occurrencesPliocene — about 22 of 567 occurrencesPleistocene — about 21 of 567 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences226–218 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences210–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 2 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences185–177 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences177–169 Mya — about 5 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 37 occurrences161–153 Mya — about 26 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 9 occurrences145–137 Mya — about 5 occurrences137–129 Mya — about 11 occurrences129–121 Mya — about 15 occurrences121–113 Mya — about 7 occurrences113–105 Mya — about 9 occurrences105–97 Mya — about 40 occurrences97–89 Mya — about 28 occurrences89–81 Mya — about 10 occurrences81–73 Mya — about 27 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 39 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 37 occurrences56–48 Mya — about 13 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 36 occurrences40–32 Mya — about 71 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 54 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 10 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 21 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 52 occurrences205.7 Mya11.7 ka242 Mya0 Mya

567 occurrences of Corbiculidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

567 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

174 formations

Woodbine — 32.73°N, 97.22°WWoodbine — 32.84°N, 97.08°WWoodbine — 32.77°N, 97.01°WWoodbine — 32.99°N, 96.95°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.91°WWoodbine — 33.62°N, 96.61°WWoodbine — 32.56°N, 97.14°WWoodbine — 32.65°N, 97.23°WWoodbine — 33.69°N, 96.35°WWoodbine — 33.80°N, 96.85°WWoodbine — 33.70°N, 96.82°WWoodbine — 33.71°N, 96.46°WWoodbine — 33.71°N, 96.30°WWoodbine — 33.60°N, 96.37°WWoodbine — 33.86°N, 95.25°WJalama — 34.53°N, 120.41°WTataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ELefipán — 42.67°S, 69.98°WLefipán — 42.69°S, 69.84°WEnokuchi — 32.30°N, 130.30°EItsuki — 35.88°N, 136.77°EItsuki — 43.82°N, 144.48°EItsuki — 36.22°N, 137.17°EItsuki — 36.17°N, 136.75°EItsuki — 36.03°N, 136.93°EEscondido — 29.24°N, 99.23°WEscondido — 29.25°N, 99.24°WEscondido — 29.06°N, 100.06°WEscondido — 28.88°N, 100.26°WYubetsu — 42.98°N, 144.38°EYubetsu — 43.25°N, 144.08°EShakubetsu — 42.98°N, 144.38°EShakubetsu — 43.25°N, 144.08°EBorgloon — 50.80°N, 5.33°EBorgloon — 50.82°N, 5.46°EBorgloon — 50.89°N, 5.64°EBorgloon — 51.00°N, 4.50°EEboshi — 32.32°N, 130.35°EEboshi — 32.34°N, 130.36°EShuqra — 14.27°N, 48.57°EShuqra — 14.30°N, 48.47°EShuqra — 14.32°N, 48.45°EKurouchi — 36.22°N, 137.17°EKurouchi — 36.17°N, 136.75°EKurouchi — 36.03°N, 136.93°EBembridge Marls — 50.71°N, 1.45°WWoolwich and Reading — 51.52°N, 0.08°WKamchikskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°ENapanskaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°ECowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WCowlitz — 46.19°N, 123.02°WShitakara — 42.98°N, 144.38°EShitakara — 43.25°N, 144.08°EStepovak — 55.65°N, 160.27°WStepovak — 55.66°N, 160.23°WStepovak — 55.64°N, 159.67°WDakota — 36.02°N, 111.05°WDakota — 35.99°N, 111.94°WDakota — 36.55°N, 110.49°WTaie — 36.27°N, 137.20°EHempstead — 50.71°N, 1.45°WTolstoi — 55.37°N, 161.47°WTolstoi — 55.53°N, 161.42°WTolstoi — 55.46°N, 161.46°W

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The named rock units Corbiculidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 150 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 76 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Corbiculidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Corbiculidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,848 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 327 sites for Corbiculidae, and this reads 240 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

138 references

Each of the 567 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. 126 further references are not listed. 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 Corbiculidae

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USGS
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Corbiculidae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Gray 1847