Solza margarita
Solza margarita is an extinct animal of uncertain phylogeny which lived about 555 mya in the Ediacaran period.
Apokryltaros · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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- Sits inside
- SolzaPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 97 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 635 Mya and 538.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Solza margarita on record. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Solza margarita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Aspidella3 sites
- Cyanorus singularis3 sites
- Kimberella quadrata3 sites
- Parvancorina sagitta3 sites
- Tribrachidium heraldicum3 sites
- Vendia rachiata3 sites
- Armillifera2 sites
- Cephalonega stepanovi2 sites
- Dickinsonia tenuis2 sites
- Lossinia2 sites
- Palaeophragmodictya2 sites
- Temnoxa molliuscula2 sites
- Albumares1 site
- Andiva1 site
- Anfesta stankovskii1 site
- Armillifera parva1 site
- Charnia gracilis1 site
- Charnia masoni1 site
- Dickinsonia1 site
- Ediacaria1 site
- Fedomia mikhaili1 site
- Mawsonites1 site
- Palaeopascichnus1 site
- Paliella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Solza margarita, 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
2 references- Paleoecological reconstruction of the Ediacaran benthic macroscopic communities of the White Sea (Russia)2
- Some problematic fossils from the Vendian of the southeastern White Sea region1
Each of the 3 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 Solza margarita
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Apokryltaros
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Solza margarita 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 itSolza through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ivantsov et al. 2004