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Corbicula sp.

genus Corbicula Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811

• Modern species: Jurassic - Present (201.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Brackish, Freshwater

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca, class Bivalvia, family Cyrenidae

• Distribution
• Jurassic: Nagano?, Toyama
• Jurassic-Cretaceous: Nagano, Ishikawa, Yamaguchi
• Eocene: Hokkaido, Yamaguchi, Saga
• Miocene: Nagano, Shimane, Saga
• Miocene-Pliocene: Nagano
• Pliocene: Hokkaido
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Nagano, Kanagawa, Shimane
• Pleistocene: Hokkaido, Aomori, Akita, Niigata, Ishikawa, Ibaraki, Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Aichi, Shiga
• Holocene: Hokkaido, Toyama, Chiba
• Investigation in progress: Aichi

• Subtaxa
• C. japonica, Japanese basket clam
• C. sandai