Soletellina

Hiatula is a genus of bivalve molluscs in the family Psammobiidae, known as sunset shells.

Soletellina

GrahamBould · Public Domain · 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
sunset shellPBDB
Sits inside
SanguinolariinaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Psammobiidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Psammobiidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Psammobiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 11 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Soletellina on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

11 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

7 formations

Nagura Gravel — 24.43°N, 124.23°EWakkanabi — 43.50°N, 142.00°EOtahuhu — 36.95°S, 174.84°EKakertskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°EPakhachinskaya — 60.00°N, 165.00°EAkasawa Silt — 34.67°N, 137.25°ETsurikake — 42.20°N, 139.53°E

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The named rock units Soletellina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Soletellina and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Soletellina and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

183 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Soletellina, 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

8 references

Each of the 11 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 Soletellina

Credit
GrahamBould
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Soletellina 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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What may have been alongside itSanguinolariinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blainville 1824