Solena

Solena

William Swainson, F.R.S., F.L.S. · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
SolenidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 326 occurrencesPaleocene — about 21 of 326 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 158 of 326 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 38 of 326 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 65 of 326 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 24 of 326 occurrencesPleistocene — about 20 of 326 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 9 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 9 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 9 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 9 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 11 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 15 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 15 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 15 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 19 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 26 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 29 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 5 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 6 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 12 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 11 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 9 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 10 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 10 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 8 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–9.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.4–7.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.2–5.0 Mya — about 14 occurrences5.0–2.7 Mya — about 20 occurrences2.7–516 ka Mya — about 23 occurrences61.66 Mya2.58 Mya67 Mya516 ka

326 occurrences of Solena on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

326 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

79 formations

Eugene — 44.04°N, 123.08°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.09°WEugene — 44.16°N, 123.05°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.02°WEugene — 45.21°N, 123.20°WEugene — 44.98°N, 123.21°WEugene — 44.94°N, 123.03°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.83°N, 120.38°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.51°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WMartinez — 38.05°N, 122.15°WMartinez — 38.02°N, 122.10°WMartinez — 38.06°N, 122.24°WMartinez — 38.21°N, 121.99°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.60°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 122.98°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.87°N, 123.12°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.59°N, 123.21°WPittsburg Bluff — 46.13°N, 123.37°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.69°N, 123.19°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.82°N, 123.18°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 123.98°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.90°N, 123.15°WVaqueros — 33.55°N, 117.82°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 119.03°WVaqueros — 34.38°N, 118.84°WVaqueros — 34.32°N, 119.08°WVaqueros — 34.36°N, 118.91°WVaqueros — 34.58°N, 120.16°WVaqueros — 34.93°N, 119.06°WVaqueros — 34.98°N, 120.21°WVaqueros — 35.27°N, 120.60°WVaqueros — 35.82°N, 121.06°WVaqueros — 36.07°N, 121.28°WSan Emigdio — 35.03°N, 119.24°WSan Emigdio — 35.06°N, 119.18°WSan Emigdio — 35.41°N, 119.69°WPancho Rico — 35.89°N, 121.05°WPancho Rico — 35.73°N, 120.81°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.80°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.86°WPancho Rico — 35.90°N, 120.84°WPancho Rico — 35.89°N, 120.56°WPancho Rico — 35.83°N, 120.50°WPancho Rico — 36.13°N, 120.73°WLlajas — 34.31°N, 118.67°WLlajas — 34.31°N, 118.64°WLlajas — 34.23°N, 118.77°WSanta Susana — 34.06°N, 118.65°WSanta Susana — 34.07°N, 118.55°WSanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.73°WSanta Susana — 34.22°N, 118.80°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.48°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.55°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WFlournoy — 43.02°N, 123.93°WFlournoy — 43.28°N, 123.08°WFlournoy — 43.46°N, 123.57°WSantee Limestone — 33.45°N, 80.16°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.41°N, 80.10°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WSantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.26°WSelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WTemblor — 35.95°N, 120.25°WTemblor — 36.37°N, 120.29°WTemblor — 35.50°N, 119.78°WClallam — 48.23°N, 124.14°WClallam — 48.27°N, 122.25°WClallam — 48.20°N, 122.11°WMeganos — 37.92°N, 121.77°WMeganos — 37.91°N, 121.74°WOkinoshima — 32.72°N, 132.55°EOkinoshima — 32.87°N, 129.55°EOkinoshima — 32.78°N, 129.83°ETejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.91°N, 119.04°WTejon — 46.41°N, 122.98°WSisquoc — 34.81°N, 120.22°WAstoria — 44.72°N, 124.06°WAstoria — 43.40°N, 124.28°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.20°N, 123.02°WPleito — 34.99°N, 119.19°WChenque — 45.30°S, 69.03°WChenque — 45.42°S, 67.42°WChenque — 48.30°S, 67.72°W

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The named rock units Solena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 55 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Solena and its relatives

Eocene

Where Solena and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,005 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 275 sites for Solena, 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

80 references

Each of the 326 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. 68 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 Solena

Credit
William Swainson, F.R.S., F.L.S.
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Solena 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mörch 1853)