Solemya
Searched as Solemya neocomiensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Solemya as the accepted name.
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.
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 39 million years on record.
The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 103.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 145.06 Mya to 99.5 Mya.
2 occurrences of Solemya on record. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
- Mangapokia Formation · Pahaoa Group1
- Picün Leufú Formation1
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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.
Found in the same rock
1,998 taxa- Nuculana34 sites
- Dentalium26 sites
- Corbula25 sites
- Modiolus24 sites
- Turritella24 sites
- Inoceramus22 sites
- Lucina22 sites
- Crassatella21 sites
- Lingula21 sites
- Pycnodonte20 sites
- Camptonectes18 sites
- Cucullaea18 sites
- Orbiculoidea18 sites
- Crinoidea17 sites
- Gastropoda17 sites
- Bivalvia16 sites
- Nuculites16 sites
- Naticidae15 sites
- Ostreidae15 sites
- Tentaculites15 sites
- Cymbophora14 sites
- Nucula14 sites
- Palaeoneilo14 sites
- Limopsis13 sites
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
2 references- Jurassic and Cretaceous trigoniid bivalves from west-central Argentina1
- The Early Cretaceous (Albian) sequence of eastern Wairarapa, New Zealand1
Each of the 2 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 content2
Picture of Solemya
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Solemya”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSolemyinae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Children 1823