Palaeosolen ordovicicus

No picture of Palaeosolen ordovicicus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaeosolen ordovicicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeosolenPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Bivalvia
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Palaeosolen
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Bivalvia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 1.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458 Mya to 456.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.1 Mya to 452.8 Mya.

Ordovician — about 4 of 4 occurrencesOrdovician470–469 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458 Mya – 456.8 Mya469.6 Mya452.3 Mya

4 occurrences of Palaeosolen ordovicicus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

4 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

3 formations

Arnestad — 60.07°N, 10.17°EArnestad — 59.88°N, 10.51°EElnes — 59.88°N, 10.51°EVollen — 59.88°N, 10.51°E

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The named rock units Palaeosolen ordovicicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Palaeosolen ordovicicus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Palaeosolen ordovicicus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from any of those sites.

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Palaeosolen ordovicicus, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Palaeosolen ordovicicus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaeosolen ordovicicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Palaeosolen ordovicicus 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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What may have been alongside itPalaeosolen through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Soot-Ryen 1966