Solemya

Solemya is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Solemyidae, the awning clams. Solemya is the type genus of the family Solemyidae.

Solemya

Graham Oliver, Clara F. Rodrigues, Marina R. Cunha · CC BY 3.0 · 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
Sits inside
SolemyinaePBDB
Diet
deposit feeder, chemosymbioticPBDB, for Solemyidae
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Solemyidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Solemyidae

Time the record covers

At least 422 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 425 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Silurian — about 3 of 193 occurrencesDevonian — about 22 of 193 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 12 of 193 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 20 of 193 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 193 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 5 of 193 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 5 of 193 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 193 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 193 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 11 of 193 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 14 of 193 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 52 of 193 occurrencesPaleocene — about 19 of 193 occurrencesEocene — about 13 of 193 occurrencesOligocene — about 6 of 193 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 193 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 193 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 193 occurrences434–419 Mya — about 3 occurrences419–405 Mya — about 4 occurrences405–390 Mya — about 10 occurrences390–376 Mya — about 7 occurrences376–361 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences361–347 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences347–332 Mya — about 2 occurrences332–318 Mya — about 2 occurrences318–303 Mya — about 5 occurrences303–289 Mya — about 2 occurrences289–275 Mya — about 2 occurrences275–260 Mya — about 7 occurrences260–246 Mya — about 13 occurrences246–231 Mya — about 5 occurrences231–217 Mya — about 1 occurrence217–202 Mya — about 2 occurrences202–188 Mya — about 2 occurrences188–173 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences173–159 Mya — about 3 occurrences159–145 Mya — about 9 occurrences145–130 Mya — about 6 occurrences130–116 Mya — about 5 occurrences116–101 Mya — about 4 occurrences101–87 Mya — about 23 occurrences87–72 Mya — about 8 occurrences72–58 Mya — about 40 occurrences58–43 Mya — about 6 occurrences43–29 Mya — about 10 occurrences29–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences422.7 Mya129 ka434 Mya0 Mya

193 occurrences of Solemya on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

193 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

82 formations

Mancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 35.85°N, 109.83°WMancos Shale — 40.76°N, 108.89°WMancos Shale — 34.74°N, 108.84°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WPonta Grossa — 24.25°S, 49.70°WPonta Grossa — 26.07°S, 52.58°WPonta Grossa — 25.08°S, 50.15°WPonta Grossa — 24.50°S, 50.40°WPonta Grossa — 25.43°S, 50.40°WTropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.62°WKuhnpasset — 74.50°N, 20.35°WMcBean — 31.60°N, 85.03°WMcBean — 33.49°N, 80.86°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.68°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.64°WOverton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WMaringi — 40.88°S, 176.07°EMaringi — 40.95°S, 175.67°EMaringi — 40.88°S, 176.97°EDalong — 27.07°N, 111.33°EDalong — 31.52°N, 111.59°EDalong — 27.77°N, 111.96°EWild Cow — 34.95°N, 106.30°WKap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WCorsicana Marl — 29.63°N, 98.04°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WVoorstehoek — 33.36°S, 19.51°EMitarai — 36.03°N, 136.93°EMitarai — 36.28°N, 136.93°EFelsörs — 46.93°N, 17.83°EFelsörs — 46.88°N, 17.63°EKaibab — 35.20°N, 111.57°WKaibab — 36.77°N, 111.65°WPark City — 43.70°N, 109.66°WPark City — 44.51°N, 109.14°WFox Hills — 45.14°N, 100.88°WArroyo Malo — 34.82°S, 69.89°WCorsicana — 31.13°N, 96.82°WDalhousie Shale — 48.07°N, 66.37°WProvidence — 31.77°N, 85.13°W

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The named rock units Solemya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 58 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 44 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Solemya and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Solemya and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,998 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 182 sites for Solemya, 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

95 references

Each of the 193 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. 83 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Solemya

Credit
Graham Oliver, Clara F. Rodrigues, Marina R. Cunha
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itSolemyinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Children 1823