Solen marginatus

Solen marginatus, common name "grooved razor shell", is a species of marine bivalve in the family Solenidae.

Solen marginatus

Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 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
SolenPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Solenidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Solenidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Solenidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 2 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–698 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Solen marginatus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

13 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

Montello conglomerate — 46.22°N, 12.80°EFels — 48.51°N, 15.77°EWexford Gravels — 52.43°N, 6.33°W

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The named rock units Solen marginatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Solen marginatus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Solen marginatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

255 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Solen marginatus, 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

9 references

Each of the 13 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 Solen marginatus

Credit
Hans Hillewaert
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Solen marginatus 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 itSolen through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pulteney 1799