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Solemya

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Description

Solemya is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Solemyidae, the awning clams. Solemya is the type genus of the family Solemyidae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solemya, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	9776514	https://www.gbif.org/species/9776514
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	16162	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=16162

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Solemyida : Solemyidae : Solemya

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

doubtful

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Bivalvia	Linnaeus 1758
order	Protobranchia	Pelseneer 1889
superorder	Nuculiformii	Dall 1889
order	Solemyida	Newell 1965
superfamily	Solemyoidea	Adams and Adams 1857
family	Solemyidae	Adams and Adams 1857
genus	Solemya	Children 1823

Scientific Name

Solemya Children, 1823

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Solemya	genus	belongs to Solenomyidae	stated with evidence	Howse, 1848
Solemya	genus	belongs to Pelecypoda	stated without evidence	Meek and Worthen, 1860
Solemya	genus	belongs to Solemyidae	stated with evidence	Stanton, 1895
Solemya	genus	belongs to Solemyidae	stated without evidence	Palmer, 1923
Solemya	genus	belongs to Solemyacidae	stated without evidence	Olsson, 1931
Solemya	genus	belongs to Solemyidae	stated with evidence	Grant and Gale, 1931
Solemya	genus	belongs to Solemyacidae	stated without evidence	Durham, 1944
Solemya	genus	belongs to Solemyidae	stated with evidence	Eames, 1951
Solemya	genus	belongs to Solemyidae	stated without evidence	Natori, 1964
Solemya	genus	belongs to Solemyidae	stated with evidence	Vokes, 1980
Solemya	genus	belongs to Solemyidae	implied	Lamprell and Healy, 1998
Solemya	genus	belongs to Solemyidae	stated without evidence	Coan et al., 2000
Solemya	genus	belongs to Solemyoida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Solemya	genus	belongs to Solemyidae	stated with evidence	Kamenev, 2009
Solemya	genus	belongs to Solemyidae	stated without evidence	Bouchet et al., 2010
Solemya	genus	belongs to Solemyidae	stated with evidence	Coan and Valentich-Scott, 2012
Solemya	genus	belongs to Solemyidae	stated without evidence	Ros-Franch et al., 2014

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

21 (54%)

First Recorded Appearance

426 - 423 Ma
Silurian

Environment

lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic (based on Solemyidae)

Motility

facultatively mobile (based on Solemyidae)

Vision

blind (based on Bivalvia)

Diet

deposit feeder, chemosymbiotic (based on Solemyidae)

Ontogeny

accretion (based on Solemyidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite

Primary Reference (PBDB)

F. B. Meek and A. H. Worthen. 1860. Description of new Carboniferous fossils from Illinois and other western states. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12:447-472

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solemya

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Solemya (Austrosolemya) subgenus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Solemya (Petrasma) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		8	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Solemya (Pseudacharax) subgenus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Solemya (Solemya) subgenus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Solemya (Solemyarina) subgenus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Solemya (Zesolemya) subgenus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Byssomya petricoloides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Solemya abbreviata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Solemya alabamensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	56.0 Ma Paleocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Solemya dalli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	38.0 Ma Eocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Solemya dunnensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Solemya funingensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Solemya holmwoodensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	304 Ma Carboniferous	260 Ma Permian
Solemya insignifica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Solemya lamarckiana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Solemya lomitensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Solemya occidentalis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Solemya parallella ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	272 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Solemya petricoloides species	listed (PBDB)		1	41.3 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Solemya radiata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		15	314 Ma Carboniferous	296 Ma Permian
Solemya sulcifera ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Solemya togata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Solenomya abbreviata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Solenomya parallella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Solenomya radiata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Solenomya semseyana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Solenomya sharonensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	318 Ma Carboniferous	318 Ma Carboniferous
Solenomya translineata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	279 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Solenomya trapezoides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	314 Ma Carboniferous	303 Ma Carboniferous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1823	Solemya Children
1848	Solenimya Howse p. 26
1860	Solenomya Meek and Worthen p. 471
1895	Solemya Stanton p. 55
1923	Solemya Palmer p. 302
1931	Solemya Grant and Gale
1931	Solemya Olsson p. 31
1944	Solemya Durham p. 133
1951	Solemya Eames p. 329
1964	Solemya Natori p. 249

Year	Name and Author
1980	Solemya Vokes p. 8
1998	Solemya Lamprell and Healy p. 42
2000	Solemya Coan et al. p. 63
2002	Solemya Sepkoski, Jr.
2009	Solemya Kamenev p. 235
2010	Solemya Bouchet et al.
2010	Solemya Huber p. 90
2012	Solemya Coan and Valentich-Scott p. 52
2014	Solemya Ros-Franch et al.

References

Meek F. B., Worthen A. H. Description of new Carboniferous fossils from Illinois and other western states, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12, 447-472

Howse R. A catalogue of the fossils of the Permian system of the counties of Northumberland and Durham, Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club 1, 219-264

Stanton T. W. Contributions to the Cretaceous paleontology of the Pacific coast. : The fauna of the Knoxville, Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 133, 1-132 doi:10.3133/b133

Palmer D. B. K. (1923) A fauna from the Middle Eocene shales near Vacaville, California, University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 14 8, 289-318

Grant U. S., Gale H. R. (1931) Catalogue of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California, Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History 1, 1-1036

Olsson A. A. (1931) Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene, Bulletins of American Paleontology 17 63

Durham J. W. (1944) Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 27, 101 -212

Eames F. E. (1951) A Contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: B. Description of the Lamellibranchia from standard sections in the Rakni Nala and Zinda Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 235, 311-482

Natori H. (1964) Some molluscan fossils from the Tertiary Muro Group in the Kii Peninsula, Japan, Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan 55 472, 247-255

Vokes H. E. (1980) Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue, Genera of the Bivalvia: a systematic and bibliographic Catalogue

Lamprell K., Healy J. (1998) , Bivalves of Australia 2

Coan E. V., Scott P. V., et al (2000) Bivalve seashells of western North America, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural history Monographs 2, 1-764

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., et al (2010) Nomenclator of Bivalve Families with a Classification of Bivalve Families, Malacologia 52 2, 1-184 doi:10.4002/040.052.0201

Huber M. (2010) , Compendium of bivalves: A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research, 1-901

Coan E. V., Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve Seashells of Tropical West America. Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Baja California to Northern Peru, Santa Barbara museum of Natural history monographs 6, 1-1258

Ros-Franch S., Márquez-Aliaga A., et al (2014) Comprehensive database on Induan (Lower Triassic) to Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) marine bivalve genera and their paleobiogeographic record, Paleontological Contributions 8, 1-219

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