Solenodon cubanus

New York Zoological Society (present-day Wildlife Conservation Society ) · Public Domain · 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
- Cuban solenodonPBDB
- Sits inside
- SolenodonPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Solenodontidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Solenodontidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Solenodon cubanus 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene95%
- Holocene5%
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.
Solenodon cubanus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Solenodon cubanus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Acratocnus antillensis1 site
- Aquila1 site
- Boromys offella1 site
- Boromys torrei1 site
- Capromys1 site
- Capromys acevedo1 site
- Capromys pilorides1 site
- Cathartidae1 site
- Crocodylus1 site
- Geocapromys columbianus1 site
- Margarobyas1 site
- Megalocnus rodens1 site
- Mesocapromys kraglievichi1 site
- Mesocnus torrei1 site
- Neocnus gliriformis1 site
- Nesophontes1 site
- Ornimegalonyx oteroi1 site
- Parocnus browni1 site
- Pulsatrix arredondoi1 site
- Tyto alba1 site
- Tyto noeli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Solenodon cubanus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba1
- Nueva especie de ave fósil (Strigiformes: Tytonidae) del Pleistoceno superior de Cuba1
Each of the 2 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 Solenodon cubanus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- New York Zoological Society (present-day Wildlife Conservation Society )
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Solenodon cubanus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSolenodon through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peters 1861