Pupa (Pupa) solidula
Searched as Pupa solidula. The Paleobiology Database treats Pupa (Pupa) solidula as the accepted name.
Pupa solidula, common name the solid pupa, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Acteonidae.

H. Zell · 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
- Pupa (Pupa)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acteonidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Acteonidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acteonidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
5 occurrences of Pupa (Pupa) solidula on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
5 occurrences- Pliocene70%
- Pleistocene30%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Pupa (Pupa) solidula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Aloidis scaphoides1 site
- Amusium1 site
- Anadara (Anadara) tambacana1 site
- Ancilla ampla1 site
- Arcopagia1 site
- Arcopagia pudica1 site
- Arcopsis1 site
- Cancellaria1 site
- Cardiolucina semperiana1 site
- Conus1 site
- Corbula (Notocorbula) fortisulcata1 site
- Crassatella radiata1 site
- Cryptospira1 site
- Dosinia histrio1 site
- Eratoidea1 site
- Gyrineum1 site
- Here1 site
- Jupiteria1 site
- Mimachlamys senatoria1 site
- Murex1 site
- Nassarius (Hinia) verbeeki1 site
- Natica1 site
- Natica vitellus1 site
- Nuculana (Nuculana) confusa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pupa (Pupa) solidula, 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
4 references- Die Mollusken des Pliozäns von Boemiajoe (Java)2
- Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia1
- Preliminary notes on fossil records of East Malaysia and Brunei1
- On the ages of certain Upper Tertiary beds of Peninsula India and Ceylon1
Each of the 5 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 Pupa (Pupa) solidula
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- H. Zell
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pupa (Pupa) solidula 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPupa (Pupa) through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeaus 1758)