Solariella

Solariella is a genus of small to minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Solariellidae within the superfamily Trochoidea, the top snails, turban snails and their allies.

Solariella

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · 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
SolariellidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Trochoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Trochoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Trochoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 205 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Triassic — about 12 of 226 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 4 of 226 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 226 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 226 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 226 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 226 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 24 of 226 occurrencesEocene — about 89 of 226 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 20 of 226 occurrencesMiocene — about 21 of 226 occurrencesPliocene — about 36 of 226 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 226 occurrences232–224 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences216–209 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences209–201 Mya — about 10 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 2 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 2 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–124 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences124–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence108–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences93–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–70 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences70–62 Mya — about 10 occurrences62–54 Mya — about 19 occurrences54–46 Mya — about 19 occurrences46–39 Mya — about 46 occurrences39–31 Mya — about 23 occurrences31–23 Mya — about 17 occurrences23–15 Mya — about 10 occurrences15–7.7 Mya — about 10 occurrences7.7–0 Mya — about 45 occurrences205.7 Mya129 ka232 Mya0 Mya

226 occurrences of Solariella on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

226 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

87 formations

Gosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WCook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 31.60°N, 87.55°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.37°N, 88.68°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.25°N, 88.43°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.35°N, 86.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.94°N, 88.06°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.53°N, 87.32°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.65°N, 88.08°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WCalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°EBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WKeasey — 45.75°N, 123.25°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.68°WArdath — 32.83°N, 117.23°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°WCzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.97°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°EShimajiri — 26.20°N, 127.70°EShimajiri — 26.13°N, 127.72°EShoal River — 30.65°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WSan Julian — 49.30°S, 67.72°WSan Julian — 47.13°S, 66.05°WMeganos — 37.92°N, 121.77°WAscot — 32.08°S, 115.92°EMonte Leon Fm — 50.37°S, 69.05°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.12°S, 68.48°WNavidad — 33.94°S, 71.85°WNavidad — 33.93°S, 71.85°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.48°WCrockett — 31.54°N, 87.52°WCrockett — 31.26°N, 93.82°WWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°E

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The named rock units Solariella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 63 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Solariella and its relatives

Eocene

Where Solariella and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,067 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 134 sites for Solariella, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

93 references

Each of the 226 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. 81 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 content1

Picture of Solariella

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Solariella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood 1842