Pusula solandri

Gray, 1832 · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Solander's triviaPBDB
- Sits inside
- PusulaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Triviidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Triviidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Triviidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 763 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 774 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Pusula solandri on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
9 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
4 formations
- Discovery Point Formation2
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation2
- San Pedro Sand Formation1
- Quaternary terrace Formation1
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The named rock units Pusula solandri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pusula solandri and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Pusula solandri and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
792 taxa- Californiconus californicus5 sites
- Fissurella volcano5 sites
- Acanthinucella spirata4 sites
- Anomia peruviana4 sites
- Antisabia panamensis4 sites
- Caesia perpinguis4 sites
- Callianax biplicata4 sites
- Caryocorbula luteola4 sites
- Cerithideopsis californica4 sites
- Chama arcana4 sites
- Crossata ventricosa4 sites
- Cryptomya californica4 sites
- Dentalium neohexagonum4 sites
- Donax (Donax) gouldii4 sites
- Donax (Paradonax) californicus4 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana4 sites
- Laevicardium substriatum4 sites
- Lucinisca nuttalli4 sites
- Macoma nasuta4 sites
- Melampus olivaceus4 sites
- Mexicardia procera4 sites
- Nucula (Lamellinucula) exigua4 sites
- Phrontis tegula4 sites
- Pteropurpura festiva4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pusula solandri, 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- Invertebrate megafossils of Pleistocene (Sangamon Interglacial) age from Isla de Guadalupe, Baja California, Mexico2
- Paleoecologic analysis and age of a late Pleistocene fossil assemblage from Upper Newport Bay, Newport Beach, Orange County, California1
- Late Pleistocene molluscan faunas from upper terraces of the Palos Verdes Hills, California1
- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California1
- Results of the Puritan-American Museum of Natural History expedition to western Mexico. Part 7: Corals and coral reefs in the Gulf of California1
- Geology and Paleontology of Palos Verdes Hills, California1
- An Upper Pleistocene fauna from the Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles County, California1
- The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California1
Each of the 9 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 content1

Picture of Pusula solandri
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Gray, 1832
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pusula solandri 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 itPusula through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1832)