Soluta

Soluta gramineoides is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, and the only species in the genus Soluta. It was described by Lacordaire in 1872.

No picture of Soluta was found. Wikipedia, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Soluta itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Soluta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BlastozoaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Blastozoa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Blastozoa
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Blastozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 497 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 515.3 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Cambrian — about 10 of 64 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 52 of 64 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 64 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 64 occurrences517–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–510 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences510–507 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences507–503 Mya — about 1 occurrence503–500 Mya — about 3 occurrences500–496 Mya — about 3 occurrences496–493 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences493–489 Mya — about 1 occurrence489–485 Mya — about 1 occurrence485–482 Mya — about 2 occurrences482–478 Mya — about 2 occurrences478–475 Mya — about 3 occurrences475–471 Mya — about 4 occurrences471–468 Mya — about 2 occurrences468–464 Mya — about 4 occurrences464–461 Mya — about 3 occurrences461–457 Mya — about 3 occurrences457–454 Mya — about 9 occurrences454–450 Mya — about 14 occurrences450–446 Mya — about 5 occurrences446–443 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–422 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences422–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–415 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences415–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences497 Mya419.62 Mya517 Mya411 Mya

64 occurrences of Soluta on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

64 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

33 formations

Dunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDunleith — 42.45°N, 89.08°WDunleith — 44.44°N, 92.89°WBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WBromide — 34.07°N, 97.17°WFezouata — 30.99°N, 5.35°WFezouata — 30.50°N, 6.11°WFezouata — 30.49°N, 6.03°WFezouata — 30.54°N, 5.94°WSarka — 49.77°N, 13.60°ESarka — 50.12°N, 14.38°ESarka — 49.78°N, 13.72°ESarka — 50.01°N, 14.46°EUpper Fezouata — 30.48°N, 5.67°WUpper Fezouata — 30.55°N, 5.90°WUpper Fezouata — 30.55°N, 5.68°WDenley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WDenley Limestone — 44.00°N, 75.00°WDenley Limestone — 43.28°N, 75.14°WWheeler Shale — 39.31°N, 113.29°WLetna — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELetna — 49.17°N, 16.52°EWhipple Cave — 39.23°N, 114.88°WWhipple Cave — 38.90°N, 114.95°WCummingsville — 44.50°N, 92.90°WCummingsville — 44.00°N, 92.00°WProsser Limestone — 44.00°N, 92.00°WStewartville — 44.00°N, 92.00°WSaint-Chinian — 43.33°N, 2.53°ESaint-Chinian — 43.44°N, 2.89°EScales Shale — 43.05°N, 91.83°WMarjum — 39.40°N, 113.80°WMarjum — 39.27°N, 113.31°WWeeks — 39.21°N, 113.35°WMarjum Limestone — 39.22°N, 113.40°WZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EFort Atkinson — 43.13°N, 91.88°WFort Atkinson Limestone — 42.00°N, 93.50°WBrainard Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WHumevale — 37.50°S, 145.50°ESouth Threave — 55.29°N, 4.76°WBois d’Arc — 34.48°N, 96.43°W

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The named rock units Soluta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed.

Soluta and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Soluta and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

886 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Soluta, 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

34 references

Each of the 64 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. 22 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 content0

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

Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Soluta itself, so it was not used.

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

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

The description on this site

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jaekel 1900