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Solemya (Janeia) minuta

Bivalvia - Solemyida - Solemyidae

Taxonomy

Solemya (Janeia) minuta was named by Zhang (1977). Its type specimen is IV55261, a valve (Right valve), and it is a mold. Its type locality is Qiyueshan, Lichuan County, which is in a Wuchiapingian carbonate limestone in the Wujiaping Formation of China.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Janeia kazanensis, S. angusticaudata, S. belensis, S. bilix, S. gigantea, S. hannonica, S. hoeli, S. kingsparki, S. kobayashii, S. neocomiensis, S. neocomiensis, S. obscura, S. obscura, S. parallela, S. penjica, S. peteri, S. rossiana, S. suprajurensis, S. ventricostata, S. ventricostata, S. willapaensis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1977	Solemya (Janeia) minuta Zhang
1982	Solemya (Janeia) minuta Li et al. p. 322 figs. Pl 123, figs 1,2

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Bivalvia
—	Eubivalvia

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	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
subgenus	Janeia
species	minuta

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Solemya (Janeia) minuta Zhang 1977

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
valve height	3	5.01	4.85	5.33	4.88	0.267

Composition:

aragoniteg

Entire body:

yesf

Adult length:

10 to < 100f

Adult width:

1.0 to < 10f

Adult height:

10 to < 100f

Thickness:

thinf

Reinforcement:

nof

Ontogeny:

accretionf

Environment:

lagoonal, coastal, inner shelf, outer shelf, oceanicf

Locomotion:

facultatively mobilef

Life habit:

deep infaunalg

Diet:

deposit feederf

Diet 2:

chemosymbioticf

Vision:

blindc

Created:

2009-10-09 06:48:45

Modified:

2009-10-09 08:48:45

Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class

References: Mikkelsen and Bieler 2008, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: Wuchiapingian or 259.51000 to 254.14000 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Wuchiapingian	259.51 - 254.14	China (Hubei)	Solemya minuta (type locality: 123593)
Lopingian	259.51 - 251.902	China (Jiangsu)	Solemya minuta (102119)