Corbula (Varicorbula)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CorbulaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 484 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 484 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 484 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 484 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 484 occurrencesEocene — about 67 of 484 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 82 of 484 occurrencesMiocene — about 216 of 484 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 61 of 484 occurrencesPleistocene — about 37 of 484 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences160–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–149 Mya — about 2 occurrences149–143 Mya — about 1 occurrence143–137 Mya — about 7 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–97 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–57 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences57–51 Mya — about 26 occurrences51–46 Mya — about 23 occurrences46–40 Mya — about 8 occurrences40–34 Mya — about 10 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 57 occurrences29–23 Mya — about 26 occurrences23–17 Mya — about 42 occurrences17–11 Mya — about 101 occurrences11–5.7 Mya — about 69 occurrences5.7–0 Mya — about 102 occurrences165.3 Mya11.7 ka172 Mya0 Mya

484 occurrences of Corbula (Varicorbula) 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

484 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

108 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.90°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WFalun de Jeurs — 48.48°N, 2.23°ECalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 38.75°N, 76.69°WCalvert — 38.67°N, 76.53°WCalvert — 38.63°N, 76.51°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 31.98°N, 89.42°WMint Spring — 32.27°N, 89.99°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WMint Spring — 32.36°N, 90.87°WMint Spring — 32.47°N, 90.84°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WLillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°EGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WPico — 34.42°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WCulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WVistula — 54.28°N, 19.48°EVistula — 53.94°N, 19.33°EBanc à verrins — 48.85°N, 1.94°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WOak Grove — 30.97°N, 86.46°WOak Grove — 30.87°N, 86.52°WKirkwood — 39.36°N, 74.42°WKirkwood — 39.10°N, 74.72°WKirkwood — 39.15°N, 74.69°WKirkwood — 39.46°N, 75.30°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.07°WFalun d'Auvers-Saint-Georges — 47.40°N, 4.45°EJackson — 25.80°N, 99.17°WJackson — 26.27°N, 98.82°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WGniew — 53.85°N, 19.17°E

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The named rock units Corbula (Varicorbula) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 84 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 154 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Corbula (Varicorbula) and its relatives

Miocene

Where Corbula (Varicorbula) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,313 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 355 sites for Corbula (Varicorbula), and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

114 references

Each of the 484 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. 102 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

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No picture of Corbula (Varicorbula) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Corbula (Varicorbula), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Corbula (Varicorbula) 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.

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. (Grant and Gale 1931)