Chlamys solea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChlamysPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Chlamys
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Chlamys
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chlamys
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Pectinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
7 occurrences of Chlamys solea 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
7 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Chlamys solea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Chlamys solea and its relatives
EoceneWhere Chlamys solea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
357 taxa- Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica4 sites
- Seraphs4 sites
- Angaria3 sites
- Architectonica3 sites
- Athleta3 sites
- Barbatia3 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta3 sites
- Cantharus3 sites
- Cassis3 sites
- Chama calcarata3 sites
- Chama fimbriata3 sites
- Clavilithes noae3 sites
- Collonia3 sites
- Conus3 sites
- Conus diversiformis3 sites
- Corbula3 sites
- Cryptoconus3 sites
- Cypraedia elegans3 sites
- Diastoma3 sites
- Galeodea (Mambrinia) nodosa3 sites
- Lima (Ctenoides) rara3 sites
- Natica3 sites
- Potamides3 sites
- Pycnodonte3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Chlamys solea, 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
4 references- Fauna de moluste a depozitelor Paleogene din nord-vestul Transilvaniei [Molluscan fauna from Paleogene deposits from NW Transilvania]3
- Five shallow benthic mollusc faunas from the Upper Eocene (Baron, Priabona, Garoowe, Nanggulan, Takashima)2
- Early Eocene (middle-late Cuisian) Molluscs Assemblage from the Harpactocarcinid Beds, in the Yoncalı Formation of the Çankırı Basin, Central Anatolia, and Implications for Tethys Paleogeography1
- Significato paleoecologico di una malacofauna eocenica superiore della Marna di Possagno (Trevigiano, Italia NE) nell'ambito delle faune bentoniche dell Tetide1
Each of the 7 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Chlamys solea
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Chlamys solea 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.
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What may have been alongside itChlamys through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Deshayes 1824)