Solenochilus

Solenochilus, type genus of the Solenochilidae is an extinct cosmopotilian nautilid from the Lower Pennsylvanian to the Lower Permian with a rapidly expanding, coiled globular shell with few whorls, from which prominent spines extend laterally from the umbilical area at maturity. Solenochilus is derived from the Upper Mississippian Acanthonautilus, principally through evolutionary changes in the siphuncle.

Solenochilus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SolenochilidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 353.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 14 of 18 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 18 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 18 occurrences356–352 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352–349 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences349–345 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences342–338 Mya — about 2 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 2 occurrences324–320 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences317–313 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences313–310 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences310–306 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 3 occurrences303–299 Mya — about 2 occurrences299–296 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences296–292 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences282–278 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences278–275 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences275–271 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences260–257 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences257–253 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences339.9 Mya259.857 Mya356 Mya250 Mya

18 occurrences of Solenochilus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

18 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

Mougoui Ayoun — 31.18°N, 4.11°WAtoka — 35.59°N, 94.29°WGlenshaw — 40.43°N, 79.30°WGlenshaw — 40.38°N, 79.75°WGraham — 33.24°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WBloyd Shale — 35.77°N, 94.38°WMattoon — 39.18°N, 88.60°WFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WCasper — 41.21°N, 105.53°WLueders — 33.51°N, 99.12°WChhidru — 32.72°N, 71.75°ELost Branch — 36.34°N, 95.83°W

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The named rock units Solenochilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Solenochilus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Solenochilus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

331 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Solenochilus, 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

11 references

Each of the 18 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 Solenochilus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Solenochilus was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itSolenochilidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meek and Worthen 1870)