Varicorbula chipolana
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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 least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
14 occurrences of Varicorbula chipolana on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
14 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.
Found in
3 formations
- Chipola Formation · Alum Bluff Group11
- Jackson Bluff Formation · Alum Bluff Group2
- Raysor Marl Formation1
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The named rock units Varicorbula chipolana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Varicorbula chipolana and its relatives
MioceneWhere Varicorbula chipolana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
371 taxa- Anadara10 sites
- Cerastoderma chipolanum10 sites
- Ervilia chipolana10 sites
- Costaglycymeris subovata9 sites
- Lindapecten chipolanus9 sites
- Nuculana9 sites
- Turritella subgrundifera9 sites
- Venericardia (Pleuromeris) tellia9 sites
- Acteocina8 sites
- Anadara (Diluvarca) santarosana8 sites
- Arcinella draconis8 sites
- Carditamera8 sites
- Crassatellites (Crassinella) triangulatus8 sites
- Dosinia chipolana8 sites
- Here glenni8 sites
- Lirophora8 sites
- Neverita chipolanus8 sites
- Nucula8 sites
- Olivella8 sites
- Parvilucina8 sites
- Pitaria8 sites
- Pseudochama8 sites
- Sulcularia8 sites
- Tectonatica8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Varicorbula chipolana, 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
3 references- The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida11
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions2
- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina1
Each of the 14 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. 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
Media content0
No picture of Varicorbula chipolana 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 Varicorbula chipolana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Varicorbula chipolana 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCorbula (Varicorbula) through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gardner 1928)