Somoholites shikhanensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SomoholitesPBDB
- 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 most 8.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 290.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Somoholites shikhanensis 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
4 occurrences- Permian100%
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 Somoholites shikhanensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Somoholites shikhanensis and its relatives
PermianWhere Somoholites shikhanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Medlicottia subdorbignyi2 sites
- Neopronorites tenuis2 sites
- Sakmarites asaphus2 sites
- Sakmarites postcarbonarius2 sites
- Shikhanonautilus siphonoventralis2 sites
- Agathiceras uralicum1 site
- Alexoceras mazaevi1 site
- Barskoceras mirum1 site
- Eoasianites trapezoidalis1 site
- Liroceras1 site
- Liroceras shakhtauense1 site
- Medlicottia1 site
- Megaglossoceras barskovi1 site
- Paragastrioceras sterlitamakense1 site
- Pararhiphaeoceras tastubense1 site
- Prothalassoceras bostocki1 site
- Subperrinites furnishi1 site
- Titanoceras1 site
- Uraloceras limatulum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Somoholites shikhanensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Asselian-Sakmarian ammonoids of the Early Permian Shakh-Tau Reef (Bashkortostan)3
- On the Late Paleozoic genus Somoholites Ruzhencev (Somoholitidae, Ammonoidea)1
Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Somoholites shikhanensis 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 Somoholites shikhanensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Somoholites shikhanensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itSomoholites through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ruzhencev 1938