Solena (Plectosolen) parallelus

Solena parallelus (Gabb, 1864), a relative of Solena (Plectosolen) parallelus — not Solena (Plectosolen) parallelus itself

Not Solena (Plectosolen) parallelus. This is Solena parallelus (Gabb, 1864), a relative.

via GBIF · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
Solena (Plectosolen)PBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Solena
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Solena
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Solena
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 27 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 23 of 27 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 27 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 27 occurrencesMiocene67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56 Mya23.04 Mya67 Mya15 Mya

27 occurrences of Solena (Plectosolen) parallelus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

27 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

11 formations

Tejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.91°N, 119.04°WTejon — 46.41°N, 122.98°WMeganos — 37.92°N, 121.77°WMeganos — 37.91°N, 121.74°WCoaledo — 43.31°N, 124.40°WCapay — 39.20°N, 121.82°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.98°WCowlitz — 46.20°N, 123.02°WRaging River — 47.50°N, 121.91°WMartinez — 38.00°N, 122.20°WDomengine — 36.20°N, 120.50°WSanta Susana — 34.06°N, 118.65°WDelmar — 32.92°N, 117.26°WLincoln Creek — 46.41°N, 122.93°W

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The named rock units Solena (Plectosolen) parallelus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Solena (Plectosolen) parallelus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Solena (Plectosolen) parallelus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

353 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Solena (Plectosolen) parallelus, 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

10 references

Each of the 27 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 Solena parallelus (Gabb, 1864)

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSolena (Plectosolen) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)