Corbis staminea Conrad 1848 (clam)

Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae

Full reference: T. A. Conrad. 1848. Observations on the Eocene formations, and descriptions of one hundred and five new fossils from that period, from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi; with an appendix. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 3:280-299

Belongs to Corbis according to T. A. Conrad 1848

Sister taxa: Fimbria (Omphaloclathrum), Fimbria africana, Fimbria astartiformis, Fimbria fimbriata, Fimbria furoni, Fimbria jamaicensis, Fimbria lajoyei, Fimbria mellingi, Fimbria pacifica, Fimbria regularis, Fimbria semireticulata, Fimbria sowerbyi, Fimbria striaticostata, Fimbria subdavidsoni, Fimbria subpectunculus, Fimbria susanensis, Fimbria vernoni, Corbis concinna, Corbis lirata, Corbis plana, Corbis major, Corbis claibornensis, Corbis manzavinii, Corbis imbricata, Corbis scarsellai, Corbis lamellosa, Corbis undata, Corbis laticostata, Corbis lajoyei, Corbis elliptica

Type specimen: Its type locality is Vicksburg, which is in a Rupelian marine marl in the Byram Marl Formation of Mississippi

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal chemosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Vicksburg

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.