Aethesolithon problematicum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AethesolithonPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
12 occurrences of Aethesolithon problematicum on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
12 occurrencesThese 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 Aethesolithon problematicum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aethesolithon problematicum and its relatives
MioceneWhere Aethesolithon problematicum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Spongites6 sites
- Hydrolithon5 sites
- Neogoniolithon5 sites
- Lithoporella melobesioides2 sites
- Porolithon craspedium2 sites
- Amphiroa fragilissima1 site
- Clathromorphum parcum1 site
- Lithophyllum1 site
- Lithophyllum incrustans1 site
- Lithophyllum nitorum1 site
- Melobesioideae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Aethesolithon problematicum, 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
3 references- Coralline algae from the Miocene Mahakam Delta (eart Kalimantan, southeast Asia)5
- Fossil and recent calcareous algae from Guam5
- New record of coralline algae from the Holocene sediments of Agatti Island, Lakshadweep, India2
Each of the 12 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 Aethesolithon problematicum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Aethesolithon problematicum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aethesolithon problematicum 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 itAethesolithon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Johnson 1964