Fimbria
Searched as Fimbria (Corbis) corrugata. The Paleobiology Database treats Fimbria as the accepted name.
Fimbria is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Lucinidae. Fimbria contains two living species, Fimbria fimbriata and Fimbria soverbii. Several other species are known from fossils.

George Brettingham Sowerby II · 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
- FimbriinaePBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 78 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Fimbria on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrencesThese 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.
Fimbria and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Fimbria and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
3,726 taxa- Parallelodon hirsonensis39 sites
- Trigonia pullus33 sites
- Lithophaga fabella32 sites
- Lopha costata32 sites
- Homomya gibbosa29 sites
- Plagiostoma29 sites
- Protocardia27 sites
- Lima (Plagiostoma) subcardiiformis24 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea23 sites
- Ceratomya concentrica23 sites
- Pholadomya lirata23 sites
- Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana22 sites
- Barbatia21 sites
- Chlamys20 sites
- Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus20 sites
- Ostrea20 sites
- Pterocardia pesbovis20 sites
- Mactromya19 sites
- Nucula19 sites
- Pholadomya19 sites
- Spondylus19 sites
- Thracia19 sites
- Venericardia19 sites
- Arca18 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 194 sites for Fimbria, and this reads all 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
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 content3
Picture of Fimbria
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- George Brettingham Sowerby II
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Anoplopoma fimbria · OS:Fishes:14231
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFimbriinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mühlfeldt 1811