Solemyidae

Solemyidae is a family of saltwater clams, marine protobranch bivalve mollusks in the order Solemyida.

Solemyidae

Guus Roeselers · 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
Awning ClamPBDB
Sits inside
SolemyoideaPBDB
Diet
deposit feeder, chemosymbioticPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 473 million years on record.

The record covers at least 473.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Ordovician — about 4 of 385 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 4 of 385 occurrencesDevonian — about 33 of 385 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 47 of 385 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 73 of 385 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 385 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 5 of 385 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 5 of 385 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 385 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 385 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 13 of 385 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 21 of 385 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 54 of 385 occurrencesPaleocene — about 19 of 385 occurrencesEocene — about 25 of 385 occurrencesOligocene — about 40 of 385 occurrencesMiocene — about 25 of 385 occurrencesPliocene — about 8 of 385 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 385 occurrences487–470 Mya — about 1 occurrence470–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–438 Mya — about 2 occurrences438–422 Mya — about 4 occurrences422–406 Mya — about 6 occurrences406–389 Mya — about 17 occurrences389–373 Mya — about 9 occurrences373–357 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences357–341 Mya — about 3 occurrences341–324 Mya — about 7 occurrences324–308 Mya — about 14 occurrences308–292 Mya — about 26 occurrences292–276 Mya — about 11 occurrences276–260 Mya — about 24 occurrences260–243 Mya — about 39 occurrences243–227 Mya — about 5 occurrences227–211 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences211–195 Mya — about 3 occurrences195–178 Mya — about 1 occurrence178–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–146 Mya — about 8 occurrences146–130 Mya — about 12 occurrences130–114 Mya — about 7 occurrences114–97 Mya — about 18 occurrences97–81 Mya — about 18 occurrences81–65 Mya — about 30 occurrences65–49 Mya — about 18 occurrences49–32 Mya — about 27 occurrences32–16 Mya — about 47 occurrences16–0 Mya — about 26 occurrences473.8 Mya129 ka487 Mya0 Mya

385 occurrences of Solemyidae on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

385 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

169 formations

Mancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 35.85°N, 109.83°WMancos Shale — 40.76°N, 108.89°WMancos Shale — 34.74°N, 108.84°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WPonta Grossa — 24.25°S, 49.70°WPonta Grossa — 24.50°S, 50.40°WPonta Grossa — 25.08°S, 50.15°WPonta Grossa — 26.07°S, 52.58°WPonta Grossa — 25.43°S, 50.40°WFord — 54.75°N, 1.32°WFord — 54.89°N, 1.41°WCabaniss — 38.64°N, 90.42°WCabaniss — 38.28°N, 93.98°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WCabaniss — 37.59°N, 89.70°WCabaniss — 37.48°N, 94.61°WLincoln Creek — 46.28°N, 123.81°WLincoln Creek — 47.28°N, 123.52°WLincoln Creek — 46.49°N, 123.80°WWild Cow — 34.75°N, 106.25°WWild Cow — 34.95°N, 106.30°WTropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.62°WBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WBlakeley — 48.16°N, 123.95°WBlakeley — 47.55°N, 122.34°WKuhnpasset — 74.50°N, 20.35°WPysht — 48.22°N, 124.11°WPysht — 48.16°N, 123.91°WPysht — 48.16°N, 123.96°WTwin River — 48.17°N, 123.99°WTwin River — 48.16°N, 123.94°WKaibab — 35.20°N, 111.57°WKaibab — 35.72°N, 111.47°WKaibab — 36.77°N, 111.65°WMcBean — 31.60°N, 85.03°WMcBean — 33.49°N, 80.86°WLekvorkuta — 66.04°N, 60.22°ELekvorkuta — 65.75°N, 59.50°ELekvorkuta — 67.68°N, 64.18°EKeasey — 46.00°N, 123.26°WKeasey — 46.58°N, 123.61°WKeasey — 45.88°N, 123.26°WBellerophon — 46.58°N, 11.70°EBellerophon — 46.67°N, 11.90°ELa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.68°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.64°WOverton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WPonta Grossa Shale — 7.00°S, 38.00°WKrebs — 37.79°N, 91.53°WMaringi — 40.88°S, 176.07°EMaringi — 40.95°S, 175.67°EMaringi — 40.88°S, 176.97°EDalong — 27.07°N, 111.33°EDalong — 31.52°N, 111.59°EDalong — 27.77°N, 111.96°EConemaugh — 39.42°N, 79.33°W

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The named rock units Solemyidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 145 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 67 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Solemyidae and its relatives

Permian

Where Solemyidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

2,492 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 339 sites for Solemyidae, and this reads 240 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

182 references

Each of the 385 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. 170 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 Solemyidae

Credit
Guus Roeselers
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Solemyidae 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 itSolemyoidea through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adams and Adams 1857