Solenopsis superba
No picture of Solenopsis superba was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Solenopsis superba, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SolenopsisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Solenopsis superba on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
7 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Solenopsis superba has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Solenopsis superba and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Solenopsis superba and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
226 taxa- Apioninae4 sites
- Cydnus armiger4 sites
- Aphanus contractus3 sites
- Camponotites vehemens3 sites
- Cydnus brevicollis3 sites
- Cydnus solutus3 sites
- Eysarcoris3 sites
- Heterogaster sundgoviensis3 sites
- Plecia foersteri3 sites
- Plecia rhenana3 sites
- Polyphaga3 sites
- Solenopsis blanda3 sites
- Solenopsis valida3 sites
- Tipula3 sites
- Anchomenus bipunctatus2 sites
- Aphidecta marginata2 sites
- Aphrophora pulchra2 sites
- Bracon praeteritus2 sites
- Chrysochloa pulchra2 sites
- Coleoptera2 sites
- Curculionidae2 sites
- Cydnus brevicrassus2 sites
- Cydnus dignus2 sites
- Cydnus pygmaeus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Solenopsis superba, 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- Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France5
- Die Insekten der "Plattigen Steinmergels" von Brunstatt2
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Solenopsis superba was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Solenopsis superba, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Solenopsis superba 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSolenopsis through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Förster 1891)