Sollasia

Sollasia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThaumastocoeliinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agelasida

Time the record covers

At least 124 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 339.9 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 3 of 223 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 211 of 223 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 223 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 223 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 9 of 223 occurrencesLate Triassic343–338 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences338–333 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences310–305 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences305–301 Mya — about 1 occurrence301–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–287 Mya — about 1 occurrence287–282 Mya — about 2 occurrences282–277 Mya — about 1 occurrence277–273 Mya — about 3 occurrences273–268 Mya — about 7 occurrences268–263 Mya — about 44 occurrences263–259 Mya — about 129 occurrences259–254 Mya — about 7 occurrences254–250 Mya — about 17 occurrences240–236 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences236–231 Mya — about 1 occurrence231–226 Mya — about 2 occurrences226–222 Mya — about 1 occurrence222–217 Mya — about 1 occurrence217–212 Mya — about 2 occurrences212–208 Mya — about 2 occurrences208–203 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences335.9 Mya211.18 Mya343 Mya203 Mya

223 occurrences of Sollasia 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

223 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

28 formations

Capitan Limestone — 32.29°N, 104.34°WCapitan Limestone — 32.18°N, 104.35°WCapitan Limestone — 32.12°N, 104.45°WCapitan — 32.19°N, 104.36°WCapitan — 32.29°N, 104.35°WCapitan — 31.90°N, 104.86°WCapitan — 32.12°N, 104.45°WCapitan — 32.15°N, 104.50°WChangxing — 29.42°N, 110.90°EChangxing — 29.92°N, 106.43°EChangxing — 30.05°N, 108.93°EChangxing — 29.88°N, 106.50°EChangxing — 30.08°N, 108.86°EChangxing — 30.38°N, 106.85°EChangxing — 25.83°N, 106.08°EChangxing — 31.76°N, 108.46°EAl Jil — 23.13°N, 58.33°EMiddle Shaly Facies — 33.38°N, 10.23°EMaokou — 24.90°N, 105.15°EMaokou — 24.02°N, 105.09°ESaikra Biohermal Complex — 33.45°N, 10.30°ESaikra Biohermal Complex — 33.41°N, 10.23°ELyudyanza — 42.85°N, 133.04°ELyudyanza — 42.79°N, 132.86°EDjebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex — 33.41°N, 10.18°EHeshan — 23.77°N, 108.86°EHeshan — 23.71°N, 109.24°EKasimlar — 37.70°N, 31.35°EKasimlar — 37.80°N, 31.07°EKasimlar — 37.42°N, 31.33°EPanormide — 37.90°N, 14.00°EPanormide — 38.13°N, 13.38°EDjebel Tebaga — 33.37°N, 10.18°EJamal — 33.98°N, 56.79°ELercara — 37.76°N, 13.63°ELengwu — 29.80°N, 119.65°EDemues — 43.31°N, 4.98°WOum el Afia Shale — 33.42°N, 10.18°EEpiskopi — 37.33°N, 23.46°EJiyaopo — 25.75°N, 106.08°EHouziguan Limestone — 25.75°N, 106.17°ESurmaq — 31.04°N, 52.91°EBell Canyon — 31.83°N, 104.87°WYastrebovka — 44.77°N, 132.80°E

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The named rock units Sollasia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sollasia and its relatives

Permian

Where Sollasia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

812 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 210 sites for Sollasia, 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

37 references

Each of the 223 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. 25 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 Sollasia

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Steinmann 1882