Solemya subplicata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SolemyaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feeder, chemosymbioticPBDB, for Solemyidae
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Solemya
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Solemyidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Solemyidae
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Solemya subplicata on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
5 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Solemya subplicata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Solemya subplicata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Solemya subplicata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
127 taxa- Anomia gryphorhyncha4 sites
- Nuculana (Nuculana) grandensis4 sites
- Phelopteria linguaeformis4 sites
- Protocardia subquadrata4 sites
- Crenella elegantula3 sites
- Cucullaea nebrascensis3 sites
- Cuspidaria ventricosa3 sites
- Cymbophora warrenana3 sites
- Glossus moreauensis3 sites
- Goniomya americana3 sites
- Grammatodon (Cosmetodon) sulcatinus3 sites
- Malletia evansi3 sites
- Modiolus galpinianus3 sites
- Modiolus meeki3 sites
- Nucula cancellata3 sites
- Nymphalucina occidentalis3 sites
- Oxytoma (Hypoxytoma) nebrascana3 sites
- Pseudoptera subtortuosa3 sites
- Spaniorinus nicolleti3 sites
- Tellinimera scitula3 sites
- Actinosepia canadensis2 sites
- Baculites2 sites
- Belemnitella bulbosa2 sites
- Camptonectes2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Solemya subplicata, 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
3 references- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages2
- Scaphitid ammonites of the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation in South Dakota and Wyoming2
- Palaeontology of the Bearpaw Formation1
Each of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Solemya subplicata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Solemya subplicata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Solemya subplicata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSolemya through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek and Hayden 1856)