Solemys

No picture of Solemys was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Solemys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SolemydinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 21 of 21 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 21 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84.1 Mya65.5 Mya

21 occurrences of Solemys on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

21 occurrences

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

11 formations

Vitoria — 42.66°N, 2.63°WSierra Perenchiza — 39.60°N, 0.97°WGrès à Reptiles — 43.35°N, 2.95°EAllueva — 40.75°N, 0.67°WVegas de Matute — 41.08°N, 4.32°WGrey Garumnian — 42.18°N, 1.80°EArgiles rutilantes — 43.50°N, 5.73°EMarnes de Lestaillats — 43.15°N, 1.04°EMarnes Rouges de Roquelongue — 43.05°N, 2.78°ELa Posa — 42.27°N, 0.73°ESobrepeña — 42.83°N, 3.54°W

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The named rock units Solemys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Solemys and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Solemys and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

163 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Solemys, 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

17 references

Each of the 21 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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

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No picture of Solemys was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Solemys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itSolemydinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996