Somoholites

Somoholites

Naturalis Biodiversity Center · 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
SomoholitidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Goniatitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 290.1 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 30 of 47 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 17 of 47 occurrencesPermian316–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 1 occurrence304–303 Mya — about 5 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 5 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 5 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 5 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 5 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 3 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 2 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 2 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 2 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 2 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 2 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 2 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 1 occurrence292–291 Mya — about 1 occurrence291–290 Mya — about 1 occurrence290–290 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences307 Mya293.52 Mya315.7 Mya289.6 Mya

47 occurrences of Somoholites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

47 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

14 formations

Hare Fiord — 81.12°N, 85.02°WHare Fiord — 80.90°N, 84.18°WUyamanoro — 34.86°N, 133.27°ECanyon Fiord — 78.40°N, 85.42°WAtahoc — 8.50°S, 126.00°ESezymskaya — 69.95°N, 59.30°EDeese — 34.19°N, 96.88°WKech'pel — 66.20°N, 61.75°EBezymyanny — 67.10°N, 126.90°EKhorokyt — 65.30°N, 130.09°EJungle Creek — 65.89°N, 136.21°WBazardarian — 38.02°N, 74.21°EPetarkinskaya — 68.60°N, 64.00°ENansen — 81.21°N, 82.14°WHolodnolog — 53.65°N, 56.08°E

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The named rock units Somoholites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Somoholites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Somoholites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Somoholites, 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

15 references

Each of the 47 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. 3 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 Somoholites

Source
GBIF
Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
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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What may have been alongside itSomoholitidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ruzhencev 1938