Solemyida

Solemyida is an order of bivalve molluscs.

Solemyida

Guus Roeselers · CC BY-SA 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
NuculiformiiPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Bivalvia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 477 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 0 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 1007 occurrencesOrdovician — about 361 of 1007 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 93 of 1007 occurrencesDevonian — about 98 of 1007 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 52 of 1007 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 84 of 1007 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 4 of 1007 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 5 of 1007 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 9 of 1007 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 32 of 1007 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 1007 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 21 of 1007 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 29 of 1007 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 57 of 1007 occurrencesPaleocene — about 22 of 1007 occurrencesEocene — about 35 of 1007 occurrencesOligocene — about 44 of 1007 occurrencesMiocene — about 32 of 1007 occurrencesPliocene — about 17 of 1007 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 1007 occurrences497–480 Mya — about 2 occurrences480–463 Mya — about 45 occurrences463–447 Mya — about 285 occurrences447–430 Mya — about 97 occurrences430–414 Mya — about 33 occurrences414–397 Mya — about 33 occurrences397–381 Mya — about 53 occurrences381–364 Mya — about 3 occurrences364–348 Mya — about 4 occurrences348–331 Mya — about 8 occurrences331–315 Mya — about 6 occurrences315–298 Mya — about 35 occurrences298–281 Mya — about 9 occurrences281–265 Mya — about 34 occurrences265–248 Mya — about 44 occurrences248–232 Mya — about 7 occurrences232–215 Mya — about 3 occurrences215–199 Mya — about 5 occurrences199–182 Mya — about 30 occurrences182–166 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences166–149 Mya — about 10 occurrences149–132 Mya — about 26 occurrences132–116 Mya — about 8 occurrences116–99 Mya — about 14 occurrences99–83 Mya — about 24 occurrences83–66 Mya — about 28 occurrences66–50 Mya — about 27 occurrences50–33 Mya — about 33 occurrences33–17 Mya — about 54 occurrences17–0 Mya — about 46 occurrences477.1 Mya11.7 ka497 Mya0 Mya

1,007 occurrences of Solemyida on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

1,007 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

404 formations

Moscow — 42.88°N, 78.42°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 76.74°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 76.03°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.70°N, 75.63°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.46°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 75.05°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.82°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.95°WMancos 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°WVerulam — 44.75°N, 79.33°WVerulam — 44.60°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.45°N, 78.70°WVerulam — 44.43°N, 78.78°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.48°N, 78.95°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WPonta Grossa — 24.25°S, 49.70°WPonta Grossa — 24.50°S, 50.40°WPonta Grossa — 25.08°S, 50.15°WPonta Grossa — 26.07°S, 52.58°WPonta Grossa — 25.43°S, 50.40°WCrown Point — 44.62°N, 73.42°WCrown Point — 44.03°N, 73.42°WCrown Point — 44.58°N, 73.53°WAntelope Valley — 36.78°N, 115.89°WAntelope Valley — 38.53°N, 116.40°WAntelope Valley — 37.34°N, 115.38°WAntelope Valley — 37.30°N, 115.80°WAntelope Valley — 39.00°N, 116.62°WAntelope Valley — 39.60°N, 116.26°WLexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.77°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 37.90°N, 84.27°WLexington Limestone — 37.84°N, 84.46°WLexington Limestone — 37.64°N, 84.66°WLexington Limestone — 37.69°N, 84.76°WFord — 54.75°N, 1.32°WFord — 54.89°N, 1.41°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WKalchreuth — 49.55°N, 11.13°EMartinsburg — 36.95°N, 81.08°WMartinsburg — 37.38°N, 80.86°WZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EGydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°EGydo — 33.52°S, 24.74°EGydo — 33.33°S, 19.37°EGydo — 33.31°S, 22.43°EVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°EBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°EBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.38°ECabaniss — 38.64°N, 90.42°WCabaniss — 38.28°N, 93.98°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WCabaniss — 37.59°N, 89.70°WCabaniss — 37.48°N, 94.61°WLoray — 39.65°N, 115.31°WLoray — 39.48°N, 115.13°WBear Creek — 43.29°N, 76.74°WBear Creek — 43.31°N, 76.58°WTabberabbera — 37.78°S, 147.38°ESodus — 43.20°N, 77.62°WSodus — 43.25°N, 77.02°WSodus — 43.23°N, 76.98°WSodus — 43.31°N, 76.58°WSodus — 43.15°N, 75.56°WLincoln Creek — 46.28°N, 123.81°WLincoln Creek — 47.28°N, 123.52°WLincoln Creek — 46.49°N, 123.80°WHermitage — 35.80°N, 86.12°WHermitage — 36.12°N, 86.67°WHermitage — 35.50°N, 86.50°WBobcaygeon — 44.67°N, 78.80°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WBobcaygeon — 45.88°N, 76.93°W

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The named rock units Solemyida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 380 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 129 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Solemyida and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Solemyida and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

2,993 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 813 sites for Solemyida, and this reads 240 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

376 references

Each of the 1,007 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. 364 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 content1

Picture of Solemyida

Credit
Guus Roeselers
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newell 1965