Solen townsendensis

Solen townsendensis

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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 6.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Eocene — about 3 of 16 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 13 of 16 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33.9 Mya27.3 Mya38.2 Mya22.5 Mya

16 occurrences of Solen townsendensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

16 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

4 formations

Pittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 122.98°WPittsburg Bluff — 46.13°N, 123.37°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.90°N, 123.15°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.82°N, 123.18°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 123.98°WQuimper — 47.95°N, 122.68°WQuimper — 48.00°N, 122.83°WPittsburg — 45.84°N, 123.04°WPittsburg — 45.82°N, 123.18°WLincoln Creek — 47.66°N, 122.96°W

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The named rock units Solen townsendensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Solen townsendensis and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Solen townsendensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

157 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Solen townsendensis, 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

3 references

Each of the 16 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 townsendensis

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No 3D scan of Solen townsendensis 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 itSolen through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clark 1925)