Amplexus salomonensis

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- AmplexusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At most 2.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 264.28 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Amplexus salomonensis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
1 occurrences- Permian100%
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.
Amplexus salomonensis and its relatives
PermianWhere Amplexus salomonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
149 taxa- "Hydatina" sp.1 site
- Adriana osiensis1 site
- Agathiceras suessi1 site
- Altudoceras hirsutum1 site
- Altudoceras zitteli1 site
- Anellidia veridica1 site
- Anellina parvula1 site
- Annuliconcha acanthica1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
- Arbusculana1 site
- Arca perpectinata1 site
- Ascarum montanum1 site
- Ataphrus planulatus1 site
- Avicula problematica1 site
- Aviculopecten minutus1 site
- Bornium vetustum1 site
- Bornium vetustum inane1 site
- Bramus pirillus1 site
- Bramus simplex1 site
- Chitobalanus minusculus1 site
- Chrysostoma tornatum1 site
- Cispusella grata1 site
- Cladoporium porrectum1 site
- Cleidophorus perdubius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Amplexus salomonensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Amplexus salomonensis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Amplexus salomonensis 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 itAmplexus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Gregorio 1930