Solamen

Solamen is a genus of saltwater, brackish water and freshwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the subfamily Crenellinae of the family Mytilidae, the mussels.

Solamen

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
crenellaPBDB
Sits inside
CrenellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mytilida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Mytilida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Mytilida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 11 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 11 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences33.9 Mya129 ka41.9 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Solamen on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

11 occurrences

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

5 formations

Clallam — 48.27°N, 122.25°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WWaita — 33.83°N, 130.50°ETortachilla Limestone — 34.92°S, 138.62°ELomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°W

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The named rock units Solamen 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.

Solamen and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Solamen and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

220 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Solamen, 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

8 references

Each of the 11 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 content1

Picture of Solamen

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Solamen was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCrenellinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Iredale 1924