Solen clallamensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SolenPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Solenidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Solenidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Solenidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Solen clallamensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
8 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Solen clallamensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Solen clallamensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Solen clallamensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Agasoma acuminatum5 sites
- Fusinus (Priscofusus) hannibali4 sites
- Mytilus sammamishensis3 sites
- Antiplanes muirensis2 sites
- Cerithiopsis newcombei2 sites
- Cornwallius sookensis2 sites
- Crenomytilus mathewsoni2 sites
- Lirabuccinum branneri2 sites
- Mactra ramonensis attenuata2 sites
- Megangulus bodegensis2 sites
- Modiolus sookensis2 sites
- Natica (Natica) teglandae2 sites
- Panopea generosa2 sites
- Polinices (Neverita) vancouverensis2 sites
- Spisula (Hemimactra) sookensis2 sites
- Tellina2 sites
- ? Desmostylia indet.1 site
- Acila1 site
- Acilla (Truncacilla) cf. conradi1 site
- Balanus (Balanus) connelli1 site
- Canadodus suntoki1 site
- Cerastoderma1 site
- Chlamys cornwalli1 site
- Clinocardium (Clinocardium) dickersoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Solen clallamensis, 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- Fauna of the Sooke Formation Vancouver Island5
- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington2
- Age and depositional environments of Tertiary rocks of Nootka Island British Columbia1
Each of the 8 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. 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 clallamensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Solen clallamensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itSolen through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clark and Arnold 1923