Corallinaceae

The Corallinaceae are one of the two extant Coralline families of red algae; they are differentiated from the morphologically similar Sporolithaceae by their formation of grouped sporangial chambers, clustered into sori. The Corallinoideae is monophyletic; the other subfamilies form another monophyletic group.

Corallinaceae

J. McKenna · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
CorallinalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB
Life habit
epifaunal, clonalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 449 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Ordovician — about 5 of 863 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 863 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 863 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 863 occurrencesPermian — about 2 of 863 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 863 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 863 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 863 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 863 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 863 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 863 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 25 of 863 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 16 of 863 occurrencesPaleocene — about 175 of 863 occurrencesEocene — about 169 of 863 occurrencesOligocene — about 41 of 863 occurrencesMiocene — about 211 of 863 occurrencesPliocene — about 48 of 863 occurrencesPleistocene — about 112 of 863 occurrences466–451 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences451–435 Mya — about 4 occurrences435–420 Mya — about 1 occurrence420–404 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences404–389 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences280–264 Mya — about 2 occurrences264–249 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–155 Mya — about 1 occurrence155–140 Mya — about 4 occurrences140–124 Mya — about 1 occurrence124–109 Mya — about 13 occurrences109–93 Mya — about 13 occurrences93–78 Mya — about 9 occurrences78–62 Mya — about 26 occurrences62–47 Mya — about 236 occurrences47–31 Mya — about 94 occurrences31–16 Mya — about 118 occurrences16–0 Mya — about 339 occurrences449.6 Mya11.7 ka466 Mya0 Mya

863 occurrences of Corallinaceae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

863 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

105 formations

Sinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 37.18°N, 43.22°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°ESinjar — 35.38°N, 45.49°ESinjar — 35.54°N, 45.30°ESylhet Formation — 25.26°N, 91.72°EUmatac — 13.28°N, 144.68°EUmatac — 13.43°N, 144.72°EUmatac — 13.50°N, 144.78°EGuitar Formation — 9.12°N, 92.80°ELakadong — 25.19°N, 91.76°EPinczow — 50.52°N, 20.53°EMiyara — 24.43°N, 124.23°EMiyara — 24.43°N, 124.25°EMiyara — 24.55°N, 124.28°EChaya — 21.97°N, 70.50°EChaya — 23.33°N, 71.93°EChaya — 21.58°N, 69.63°EBoat Cove — 29.28°S, 177.85°WBoat Cove — 29.22°S, 177.83°WBoat Cove — 29.23°S, 177.88°WCluj Limestone — 46.70°N, 23.56°ECluj Limestone — 46.75°N, 23.38°ESylhet Limestone — 23.03°N, 88.58°ESylhet Limestone — 23.73°N, 87.90°ESylhet Limestone — 22.85°N, 87.91°EZongpu — 28.07°N, 89.19°EZongpu — 28.30°N, 88.66°EZongpu — 28.30°N, 88.51°EHuy Bay — 10.59°N, 92.56°ECastro Limestone — 40.03°N, 18.38°ECastro Limestone — 39.85°N, 18.38°EDwarka — 21.72°N, 69.55°EDwarka — 21.75°N, 69.48°EGodhra — 23.42°N, 68.13°EAlutom — 13.40°N, 144.68°ENimyo — 33.55°N, 132.69°EManiyara Fort — 23.67°N, 68.80°EManiyara Fort — 23.08°N, 68.70°EManiyara Fort — 23.47°N, 68.61°EBassein — 18.93°N, 72.48°EBassein — 18.92°N, 72.41°ENeill West Coast — 11.84°N, 93.02°EDayrell — 29.23°S, 177.82°WDayrell — 29.25°S, 177.82°WLakadong Limestone — 25.19°N, 91.76°ELakadong Limestone — 25.26°N, 91.71°ENavarri — 42.38°N, 0.39°E

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The named rock units Corallinaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 81 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 363 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Corallinaceae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Corallinaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,382 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 390 sites for Corallinaceae, and this reads 240 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

214 references

Each of the 863 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. 202 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 content2

Picture of Corallinaceae

Credit
J. McKenna
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Lamouroux 1816