Solecurtus

Searched as Solecurtus broggii gatunensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Solecurtus as the accepted name.

Solecurtus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
Sits inside
SolecurtinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 8.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesMiocene — about 16 of 16 occurrencesMiocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.5–9.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.0–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–7.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.9–7.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20.45 Mya11.63 Mya23.5 Mya6.7 Mya

16 occurrences of Solecurtus on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

16 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

2 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WCulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.63°W

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The named rock units Solecurtus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Solecurtus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Solecurtus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,532 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Solecurtus, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

1 reference

Each of the 16 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Solecurtus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Solecurtus cumingianus · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:177600

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSolecurtinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Blainville 1824)