Solecurtus

Solecurtus is a genus of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve molluscs in the family Solecurtidae.

Solecurtus

MNHN - Alexandre LARDEUR - 2020 · CC BY 4.0 · 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
Sits inside
SolecurtinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 152 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 119 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 119 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 119 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 119 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 119 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 119 occurrencesMiocene — about 44 of 119 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 24 of 119 occurrencesPleistocene — about 22 of 119 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences153–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–126 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences111–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–95 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences95–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences79–74 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences74–68 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 7 occurrences21–16 Mya — about 15 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 18 occurrences11–5.3 Mya — about 9 occurrences5.3–0 Mya — about 47 occurrences152.21 Mya11.7 ka158 Mya0 Mya

119 occurrences of Solecurtus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

119 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

63 formations

Caloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.44°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WLillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°EShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WJama — 0.18°S, 80.32°WJama — 0.20°N, 80.27°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WPirabas — 1.00°S, 48.00°WPirabas — 1.23°S, 47.40°WToshima Sand — 34.62°N, 137.22°ETalar — 25.33°N, 62.00°ETalar — 25.33°N, 65.50°EArmuelles — 8.03°N, 82.92°WOtekaike Limestone — 44.86°S, 170.67°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.84°S, 170.52°EJimol — 12.00°N, 71.31°WVaqueros — 35.31°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 35.24°N, 120.09°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°EMaraldi Sandstone — 46.22°N, 12.80°ENagura Gravel — 24.43°N, 124.23°EMandul Marl — 3.75°N, 117.65°EYsidro — 24.58°N, 112.00°WKukpowruk — 69.25°N, 162.72°WBohio — 9.17°N, 79.85°W

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The named rock units Solecurtus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Solecurtus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Solecurtus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,532 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Solecurtus, 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

77 references

Each of the 119 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. 65 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 Solecurtus

Credit
MNHN - Alexandre LARDEUR - 2020
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Solecurtus 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 itSolecurtinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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