Corbula

Searched as Corbula gibba gibba. The Paleobiology Database treats Corbula as the accepted name.

Corbula is a genus of very small saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Corbulidae, the basket clams.

Corbula

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
CorbulidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 9 of 10 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 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 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.5–8.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.6–7.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.6–6.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27.3 Mya11.63 Mya34.4 Mya6.7 Mya

10 occurrences of Corbula on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

10 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

3 formations

Berada — 51.10°N, 5.80°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.43°E

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The named rock units Corbula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Corbula and its relatives

Miocene

Where Corbula and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,633 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,363 sites for Corbula, 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

4 references

Each of the 10 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Corbula

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Corbula 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCorbulidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bruguière 1789