Solena (Eosolen) eugenensis

Not Solena (Eosolen) eugenensis. This is Solena eugenensis (Clark, 1925), a relative — both are Solenidae.
University of Washington Burke Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- Solena (Eosolen)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Solena
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Solena
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Solena
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 28 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
46 occurrences of Solena (Eosolen) eugenensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
46 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Eugene Formation29
- Pittsburg Bluff Formation12
- Pittsburg Formation3
- Snatol'skaya Formation1
- Unel'skaya Formation1
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The named rock units Solena (Eosolen) eugenensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Solena (Eosolen) eugenensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Solena (Eosolen) eugenensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
171 taxa- Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis27 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana22 sites
- Pitar (Pitar) dalli21 sites
- Dentalium (Fissidentalium) laneensis20 sites
- Mactromeris eugenensis20 sites
- Tellina pittsburgensis19 sites
- Bruclarkia18 sites
- Polinices washingtonensis18 sites
- Macrocallista pittsburgensis16 sites
- Thracia (Cetothrax) condoni16 sites
- Bruclarkia columbiana14 sites
- Parvicardium eugenense14 sites
- Scaphander stewarti14 sites
- Tellina14 sites
- Diplodonta parilis12 sites
- Macrocallista12 sites
- Mactromeris pittsburgensis12 sites
- Perse pittsburgensis12 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) shumardi11 sites
- Crepidula ungana11 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) inquinata11 sites
- Solen sicarius11 sites
- Lamelliconcha clarki10 sites
- Molopophorus gabbi10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Solena (Eosolen) eugenensis, 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
4 references- The Oligocene marine molluscan fauna of the Eugene Formation in Oregon28
- Oligocene marine mollusks from the Pittsburg Bluff Formation in Oregon15
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.2
- The Geology and Mineral Resources of Lane County, Oregon1
Each of the 46 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 Solena eugenensis (Clark, 1925)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- University of Washington Burke Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSolena (Eosolen) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clark 1925)