Bivalvia - Solemyida - Solemyidae
Alternative spellings: Solenimya, Solenomya
Synonyms: Janeia King 1850, Solemya (Janeia) King 1850, Solenomya (Janeia) King 1850, Stephanopus Seacchi 1833
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 funingensis Solemya insignifica Solemya lamarckiana Solemya lomitensis Solemya petricoloides Solemya sulcifera Solemya togata Solenomya (Janeia) trapezoides Solenomya semseyana Solenomya sharonensis Solenomya translineata
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 (1: Washington)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Cuba (1), United States (5: Alabama, California, Georgia, South Carolina)
• Paleocene of Australia (1), Belgium (2), Greenland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (13: Texas)
• Motuan of New Zealand (5)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (4), Canada (1: Saskatchewan), Greenland (5), Japan (7), New Zealand (1), 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 (6: Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous of Brazil (1), China (1), India (1), United States (8: Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Virginia)
• Devonian of Brazil (19), Canada (2: New Brunswick, Nunavut), South Africa (6), United States (1: Virginia)
• Silurian of the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 190 collections including 195 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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