Solyma

Solyma

Collector(s): Remy C. Rovelli · CC0 · 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
TellininaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Tellinidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Tellinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 110 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 108 of 110 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 110 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 110 occurrencesEocene102–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 5 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 5 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 5 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 20 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 23 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 23 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 13 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93.9 Mya56 Mya102 Mya47 Mya

110 occurrences of Solyma on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

110 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

20 formations

Woodbine — 32.73°N, 97.22°WWoodbine — 32.84°N, 97.08°WWoodbine — 32.77°N, 97.01°WWoodbine — 32.86°N, 97.06°WWoodbine — 33.71°N, 96.46°WWoodbine — 32.35°N, 97.39°WWoodbine — 32.56°N, 97.14°WWoodbine — 33.71°N, 96.30°WWoodbine — 33.60°N, 96.37°WWoodbine — 33.87°N, 95.51°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.98°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.85°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 86.08°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.78°N, 85.14°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.85°WRoca — 37.54°S, 69.87°WCorsicana Marl — 32.53°N, 96.27°WCorsicana Marl — 32.06°N, 96.47°WCorsicana Marl — 30.30°N, 97.46°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WOwl Creek — 34.82°N, 88.88°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.00°WPrairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WPeedee — 33.89°N, 79.41°WLewisville — 33.67°N, 96.34°WNeylandville Marl — 33.37°N, 95.69°WNavesink — 39.76°N, 75.13°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WVincentown — 40.07°N, 74.53°WManasquan — 39.74°N, 75.22°WSnow Hill — 34.65°N, 78.25°W

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The named rock units Solyma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Solyma and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Solyma and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

919 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 90 sites for Solyma, 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

17 references

Each of the 110 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. 5 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 Solyma

Source
GBIF
Credit
Collector(s): Remy C. Rovelli
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Solyma 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. Conrad 1870