Solyma elliptica

No picture of Solyma elliptica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Solyma elliptica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SolymaPBDB
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 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 21 of 23 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 23 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 23 occurrencesEocene84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 4 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 4 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 4 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya56 Mya84.3 Mya47.4 Mya

23 occurrences of Solyma elliptica 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

23 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

7 formations

Providence — 31.87°N, 86.08°WProvidence — 31.78°N, 85.14°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.77°N, 85.15°WCorsicana Marl — 32.07°N, 96.46°WPeedee — 33.89°N, 79.41°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WVincentown — 40.07°N, 74.53°WManasquan — 39.74°N, 75.22°W

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The named rock units Solyma elliptica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Solyma elliptica and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

524 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Solyma elliptica, 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

8 references

Each of the 23 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 content0

No picture of Solyma elliptica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Solyma elliptica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Solyma elliptica 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 itSolyma through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1861)