Cuspidaria vorbei
No picture of Cuspidaria vorbei was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Cuspidaria vorbei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CuspidariaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cuspidaria
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Cuspidaria
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cuspidaria
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cuspidaria vorbei on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
1 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Cuspidaria vorbei and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cuspidaria vorbei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Bittium cliffensis1 site
- Bullaria jolla1 site
- Caryocorbula parilis1 site
- Corbula tomulata1 site
- Crassatella uvasana1 site
- Drillia cliffensis1 site
- Gemmula violeta1 site
- Grovesia mathewsonii1 site
- Macoma (Rexithaerus) rosa1 site
- Surcula decipiens1 site
- Turritella scrippsensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cuspidaria vorbei, 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 1 occurrence 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 content0
No picture of Cuspidaria vorbei was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Cuspidaria vorbei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cuspidaria vorbei 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCuspidaria through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hanna 1927