Archaeolithothamnium

Archaeolithothamnium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CorallinalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta

Time the record covers

At least 125 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 24 of 249 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 69 of 249 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 41 of 249 occurrencesEocene — about 65 of 249 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 249 occurrencesMiocene — about 29 of 249 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 249 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 249 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–126 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 3 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 6 occurrences117–113 Mya — about 8 occurrences113–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence108–104 Mya — about 3 occurrences104–99 Mya — about 7 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 16 occurrences95–90 Mya — about 4 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 5 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 23 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 4 occurrences77–72 Mya — about 4 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 6 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 14 occurrences63–59 Mya — about 16 occurrences59–54 Mya — about 22 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 21 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 12 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 8 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 9 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 7 occurrences32–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 8 occurrences23–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 11 occurrences14–9.0 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.0–4.5 Mya — about 9 occurrences4.5–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences125.77 Mya11.7 ka135 Mya0 Mya

249 occurrences of Archaeolithothamnium on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

249 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

41 formations

Miyara — 24.42°N, 124.08°EMiyara — 24.35°N, 124.22°EMolare — 44.37°N, 8.20°ESinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°ESinjar — 36.35°N, 41.50°ESinjar — 36.36°N, 41.83°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.38°ELakadong Limestone — 25.19°N, 91.76°ETziqlag — 31.57°N, 34.62°ETziqlag — 31.30°N, 34.62°ETziqlag — 31.65°N, 34.72°EUmatac — 13.33°N, 144.68°EUmatac — 13.43°N, 144.72°EBateque — 26.75°N, 113.00°WBateque — 26.50°N, 112.73°WMans Sandstone — 48.00°N, 0.27°EMans Sandstone — 47.98°N, 0.62°EAlutom — 13.40°N, 144.68°EUlukışla — 37.62°N, 35.00°ECiezkowice Sandstone — 49.73°N, 20.72°EKarasur — 11.94°N, 79.81°EStreiteck — 47.50°N, 11.92°ESalt Mountain Limestone — 31.43°N, 87.92°WKlokova — 38.35°N, 21.68°EZongpu — 28.30°N, 88.51°EZhepure Shan — 28.65°N, 87.16°ECherra — 25.28°N, 91.70°EAltamira — 43.38°N, 4.22°WLa Quinta — 17.12°N, 92.88°WNullarbor Limestone — 30.85°S, 128.08°ELa Cadiere d'Azur — 43.20°N, 5.77°ECalcareniti di Castelgomberto — 45.43°N, 11.52°E

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The named rock units Archaeolithothamnium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 143 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Archaeolithothamnium and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Archaeolithothamnium and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

865 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Archaeolithothamnium, 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

79 references

Each of the 249 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. 67 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 Archaeolithothamnium

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Credit
via iDigBio
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 itCorallinales through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rothpletz 1891