Solen sicarius

Solen sicarius

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
sickle razor clamPBDB
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 least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 13 of 104 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 104 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 104 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 42 of 104 occurrencesPleistocene — about 44 of 104 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 12 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 28 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 11 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 32 occurrences33.9 Mya129 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

104 occurrences of Solen sicarius 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

104 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

20 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°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°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°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.82°N, 120.45°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WEmpire — 43.39°N, 124.28°WEmpire — 43.43°N, 124.23°WEmpire — 42.84°N, 124.56°WAnchor — 34.04°N, 118.40°WMerced — 47.35°N, 124.29°WMerced — 37.38°N, 122.19°WMerced — 38.37°N, 122.92°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WJacalitos — 36.07°N, 120.44°WJacalitos — 36.04°N, 120.39°WEtchegoin — 36.12°N, 120.40°WEtchegoin — 36.06°N, 120.48°WUspenskaya — 60.42°N, 165.92°EPakhachinskaya — 60.00°N, 165.00°ESan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.16°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WSan Joaquin — 36.27°N, 120.28°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°W

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The named rock units Solen sicarius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Solen sicarius and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Solen sicarius and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,321 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 89 sites for Solen sicarius, 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

35 references

Each of the 104 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. 23 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 sicarius

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Solen sicarius was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1850)