Solenopleura

Solenopleura

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SolenopleurinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Solenopleuridae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 79 million years on record.

The record covers at least 512.1 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 516 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Cambrian — about 40 of 41 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 41 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 41 occurrencesSilurian518–515 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences515–511 Mya — about 1 occurrence511–508 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences508–505 Mya — about 5 occurrences505–502 Mya — about 16 occurrences502–498 Mya — about 12 occurrences498–495 Mya — about 3 occurrences495–492 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences492–489 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences489–486 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences434–431 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences431–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512.1 Mya432.9 Mya518 Mya421 Mya

41 occurrences of Solenopleura on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

41 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

22 formations

Upper Comley Sandstone — 52.00°N, 2.00°WAlum Shale — 58.76°N, 15.52°ETandoshinskaya — 51.97°N, 85.97°EKap Stanton — 81.72°N, 17.80°WSamodi — 68.00°N, 88.82°EForsemölla Limestone — 59.77°N, 10.48°EAlum Shale — 59.73°N, 10.50°EFjällbränna — 64.23°N, 15.59°EFjällbränna — 64.43°N, 15.54°ESchodack — 42.53°N, 73.69°WMuav Limestone — 35.99°N, 113.82°WSt. Albans Shale — 44.48°N, 73.21°WSkeels Corner Slate — 44.78°N, 73.11°WUst-Maya — 61.78°N, 113.02°ESanashtykgol Limestone — 52.57°N, 85.25°ESpurs — 71.50°S, 165.27°ESlowiec Sandstone — 50.68°N, 21.37°EGory Pieprzowe Shale — 50.72°N, 21.62°EAktas — 43.53°N, 69.95°EMount Spann — 82.00°S, 41.33°WRead Bay — 74.71°N, 94.89°WAndrarum Limestone — 59.29°N, 6.30°EMenevia — 51.87°N, 5.22°W

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The named rock units Solenopleura has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Solenopleura and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Solenopleura and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

261 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Solenopleura, 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

24 references

Each of the 41 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. 12 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

Media content1

Picture of Solenopleura

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Solenopleura 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.

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What may have been alongside itSolenopleurinae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Angelin 1854)