Solemya Children 1823 (Awning Clam)

Bivalvia - Solemyida - Solemyidae

Alternative spellings: Solenimya, Solenomya

Synonyms: Janeia King 1850, Solemya (Janeia) King 1850, Solenomya (Janeia) King 1850

Parent taxon: Solemyidae according to E. V. Coan and P. Valentich-Scott 2012

See also Bailey 2011, Bouchet et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2000, Durham 1944, Eames 1951, Grant, IV and Gale 1931, Howse 1848, Huber 2010, Kamenev 2009, Lamprell and Healy 1998, Meek and Worthen 1860, Mello 1999, Muromtseva 1981, Natori 1964, Olsson 1931, Palmer 1923, Ros-Franch et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002, Stanton 1895, Vokes 1980 and Woodring 1938

Sister taxa: Acharacinae, Clinopisthinae, Ovatoconcha, Palaeosolemya, Solemyinae, Trachyaspis turbulensis, Vorkutella, Zesolemya

Subtaxa: Janeia elliptica Solemya (Austrosolemya) Solemya (Janeia) minuta Solemya (Janeia) tibetica Solemya (Petrasma) Solemya (Pseudacharax) Solemya (Solemya) Solemya (Solemyarina) Solemya (Zesolemya) Solemya abbreviata Solemya alabamensis Solemya dalli Solemya funingensis Solemya insignifica Solemya lamarckiana Solemya lomitensis Solemya petricoloides Solemya sulcifera Solemya togata Solenomya (Janeia) trapezoides Solenomya semseyana Solenomya sharonensis Solenomya translineata

View classification

Ecology: facultatively mobile deep infaunal deposit feeder-chemosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection), United States (1: Virginia)

• Pliocene of Holy See (Vatican City State) (1)

• Miocene of Japan (1), Pakistan (1)

• Oligocene of Colombia (1), Ecuador (2), United States (18: Washington)

• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Cuba (1), United States (8: Alabama, California, Georgia, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington)

• Paleocene of Australia (1), Belgium (2), Greenland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (13: Texas)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (4), Canada (1: Saskatchewan), Greenland (5), Japan (7), New Zealand (6), the Russian Federation (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), Turkey (1), United States (36: Alabama, Arizona, California, New Mexico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)

• Jurassic of Germany (2), Greenland (2), Japan (4), New Zealand (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (5), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: California)

• Triassic of Argentina (2), China (1), Hungary (6), Madagascar (1), United States (1: Alaska)

• Permian of Australia (1), China (10), the Russian Federation (2), United States (5: Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming)

• Virgilian of United States (1: New Mexico)

• Desmoinesian of United States (1: Missouri)

• Chesterian of United States (1: Virginia)

• Osagean of United States (1: Virginia)

• Carboniferous of Brazil (1), China (1), India (1), United States (4: Kentucky, New Mexico, Ohio)

• Devonian of Brazil (19), Canada (2: New Brunswick, Nunavut), South Africa (6), United States (1: Virginia)

• Silurian of the United Kingdom (3)

Total: 209 collections including 214 occurrences

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.