Varicorbula capayana
No picture of Varicorbula capayana 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 Varicorbula capayana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Corbula (Varicorbula)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Corbula (Varicorbula)
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Corbula (Varicorbula)
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Corbula (Varicorbula)
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Varicorbula capayana 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
4 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.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Varicorbula capayana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Varicorbula capayana and its relatives
EoceneWhere Varicorbula capayana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Ficopsis remondii4 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana3 sites
- Amaurellina caleocia2 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) dickersoni2 sites
- Cylichnina tantilla2 sites
- Ectinochilus (Macilentos) macilentus2 sites
- Galeodea (Gomphopages) meganosensis2 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata2 sites
- Lyria andersoni2 sites
- Miltha packi2 sites
- Olivella mathewsonii2 sites
- Phygraea haleyi2 sites
- Pleurofusia fresnoensis2 sites
- Turritella andersoni2 sites
- Turritella uvasana infera2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa1 site
- Ancilla (Spirancilla) gabbi1 site
- Astrocoenia portoricoensis1 site
- Athleta roddai1 site
- Aturia1 site
- Bonellitia (Admetula) paucivaricata1 site
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis1 site
- Cadulus1 site
- Calliovarica eocensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Varicorbula capayana, and this reads all 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
2 references- Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California3
- Molluscan faunas of the Domengine and Arroyo Hondo Formations of the California Eocene1
Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Varicorbula capayana 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 Varicorbula capayana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Varicorbula capayana 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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What may have been alongside itCorbula (Varicorbula) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Vokes 1939)