Solenidae

Solenidae, commonly called "razor shells", is a family of marine bivalve molluscs in the unassigned Euheterodonta.

Solenidae

Jan Johan ter Poorten; modified by Tom Meijer · 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
Also called
razor clamsPBDB
Sits inside
SolenoideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
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 656 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 656 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 656 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 656 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 656 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 656 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 36 of 656 occurrencesEocene — about 207 of 656 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 76 of 656 occurrencesMiocene — about 120 of 656 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 90 of 656 occurrencesPleistocene — about 108 of 656 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences203–196 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–63 Mya — about 6 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 31 occurrences56–49 Mya — about 32 occurrences49–42 Mya — about 50 occurrences42–35 Mya — about 103 occurrences35–28 Mya — about 48 occurrences28–21 Mya — about 63 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 55 occurrences14–7.0 Mya — about 34 occurrences7.0–0 Mya — about 220 occurrences201.4 Mya11.7 ka210 Mya0 Mya

656 occurrences of Solenidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

656 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

170 formations

Eugene — 44.04°N, 123.08°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.09°WEugene — 44.16°N, 123.05°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.02°WEugene — 45.21°N, 123.20°WEugene — 44.98°N, 123.21°WEugene — 44.94°N, 123.03°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.51°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.83°N, 120.38°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.82°N, 120.45°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 122.98°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.87°N, 123.12°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.59°N, 123.21°WPittsburg Bluff — 46.13°N, 123.37°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.69°N, 123.19°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.82°N, 123.18°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.90°N, 123.15°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 123.98°WMartinez — 38.05°N, 122.15°WMartinez — 38.02°N, 122.10°WMartinez — 38.06°N, 122.24°WMartinez — 38.21°N, 121.99°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.60°WSan Emigdio — 35.06°N, 119.18°WSan Emigdio — 35.03°N, 119.24°WSan Emigdio — 35.41°N, 119.69°WSan Emigdio — 34.92°N, 119.30°WSan Emigdio — 34.91°N, 119.21°WVaqueros — 33.55°N, 117.82°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 119.03°WVaqueros — 34.38°N, 118.84°WVaqueros — 34.32°N, 119.08°WVaqueros — 34.36°N, 118.91°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.16°WVaqueros — 34.93°N, 119.06°WVaqueros — 34.98°N, 120.21°WVaqueros — 35.27°N, 120.60°WVaqueros — 35.82°N, 121.06°WVaqueros — 36.07°N, 121.28°WPancho Rico — 35.89°N, 121.05°WPancho Rico — 35.73°N, 120.81°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.80°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.86°WPancho Rico — 35.90°N, 120.84°WPancho Rico — 35.89°N, 120.56°WPancho Rico — 35.83°N, 120.50°WPancho Rico — 36.13°N, 120.73°WSanta Susana — 34.11°N, 118.57°WSanta Susana — 34.07°N, 118.55°WSanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.73°WSanta Susana — 34.22°N, 118.80°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WLlajas — 34.31°N, 118.67°WLlajas — 34.31°N, 118.64°WLlajas — 34.23°N, 118.77°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°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.25°WTemblor — 36.37°N, 120.29°WTemblor — 35.50°N, 119.78°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.20°N, 123.02°WTejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WTejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.91°N, 119.04°WTejon — 46.41°N, 122.98°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.48°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.55°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WFlournoy — 43.02°N, 123.93°WFlournoy — 43.28°N, 123.08°WFlournoy — 43.46°N, 123.57°WSantee Limestone — 33.45°N, 80.16°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.41°N, 80.10°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WSantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.26°WSelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.06°N, 84.49°WQuimper — 47.95°N, 122.68°WQuimper — 48.00°N, 122.83°WClallam — 48.23°N, 124.14°WClallam — 48.27°N, 122.25°WClallam — 48.20°N, 122.11°WPittsburg — 45.84°N, 123.04°WPittsburg — 45.82°N, 123.18°WPittsburg — 45.88°N, 123.12°W

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The named rock units Solenidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 146 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 92 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Solenidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Solenidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,069 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 490 sites for Solenidae, and this reads 240 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

203 references

Each of the 656 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. 191 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 Solenidae

Credit
Jan Johan ter Poorten; modified by Tom Meijer
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Solenidae 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1809