Solen

Solen is a genus of marine bivalves in the family Solenidae.

Solen

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SolenidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Solenidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Solenidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Solenidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 314 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 314 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 314 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 314 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 314 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 314 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 15 of 314 occurrencesEocene — about 49 of 314 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 37 of 314 occurrencesMiocene — about 49 of 314 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 65 of 314 occurrencesPleistocene — about 88 of 314 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences203–196 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 12 occurrences56–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–42 Mya — about 7 occurrences42–35 Mya — about 33 occurrences35–28 Mya — about 19 occurrences28–21 Mya — about 29 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 24 occurrences14–7.0 Mya — about 15 occurrences7.0–0 Mya — about 164 occurrences201.4 Mya11.7 ka210 Mya0 Mya

314 occurrences of Solen on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

314 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

103 formations

Pico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.47°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.09°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.02°WEugene — 45.21°N, 123.20°WEugene — 44.04°N, 123.06°WEugene — 44.94°N, 123.03°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.17°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 122.98°WPittsburg Bluff — 46.13°N, 123.37°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.90°N, 123.15°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.82°N, 123.18°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 123.98°WQuimper — 47.95°N, 122.68°WQuimper — 48.00°N, 122.83°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.82°N, 120.45°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.06°N, 84.49°WMerced — 47.35°N, 124.29°WMerced — 37.38°N, 122.19°WMerced — 38.37°N, 122.92°WEmpire — 43.39°N, 124.28°WEmpire — 43.43°N, 124.23°WEmpire — 42.84°N, 124.56°WRed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°EToshima Sand — 34.62°N, 137.22°EPendleton Ferry — 31.47°N, 93.75°WPendleton Ferry — 31.74°N, 93.40°WPendleton Ferry — 31.47°N, 93.57°WPendleton Ferry — 31.69°N, 93.30°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WAnchor — 34.04°N, 118.40°WAluginskaya — 60.42°N, 165.92°EAluginskaya — 59.83°N, 165.00°ESnatol'skaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°EMartinez — 38.00°N, 122.20°WMartinez — 38.00°N, 122.10°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.60°WSooke — 48.50°N, 124.32°WSooke — 48.40°N, 123.89°WSooke — 48.41°N, 124.00°WJalama — 34.51°N, 120.45°WJalama — 34.51°N, 120.43°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WSan Emigdio — 35.06°N, 119.18°WSan Emigdio — 34.92°N, 119.30°WSan Emigdio — 34.91°N, 119.21°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 32.98°N, 79.89°W

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The named rock units Solen has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 79 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 64 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Solen and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Solen and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

4,024 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 235 sites for Solen, 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

131 references

Each of the 314 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. 119 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 Solen

Credit
本人
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

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 itSolenidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758