Sololites
No picture of Sololites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sololites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HyolithidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolithida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolithida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Hyolithida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hyolitha
Time the record covers
At least 54 million years on record.
The record covers at least 503 Mya to 448.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 508 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
21 occurrences of Sololites 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
21 occurrences- Cambrian90%
- Ordovician10%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Sololites 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.
Sololites and its relatives
CambrianWhere Sololites and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
79 taxa- Shandongolithes10 sites
- Loculitheca8 sites
- Yacutolituus7 sites
- Gerkella6 sites
- Kulangarra4 sites
- Yalarrnga3 sites
- Bactrotheca2 sites
- Carinolithes2 sites
- Orthothecidae2 sites
- Anomphalidae1 site
- Archinacellina1 site
- Bellerophontoidea1 site
- Bimuria1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Buchavalites1 site
- Calymenidae1 site
- Chonetoidea1 site
- Circotheca1 site
- Cliftonia oxoplecioides1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Ctenodontidae1 site
- Cyclospira1 site
- Cyrtolites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Sololites, 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
3 references- Biostratigraphic potential of Middle Cambrian hyoliths from the eastern Georgina Basin19
- 'Mediterranean Province' hyoliths from the Middle Cambrian and Upper Ordovician of Sweden1
- The Ordovician-Silurian boundary in the Garth area of southwest Powys, Wales1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Sololites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sololites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sololites 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHyolithidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marek 1967