Corallinales

Coralline algae are red algae in the order Corallinales, characterized by a thallus containing calcareous deposits within its cell walls, giving it hardness. The colors of these algae are typically some hue of pink, or another shade of red, but some species can be purple, yellow, blue, white, or gray-green. Typically, these algae grow in a crustose manner ; in the intertidal zone of rocky shorelines, and within coral reefs, these algae appear as an abundance of colorful patches on rock surfaces. Unattached specimens may form relatively smooth compact balls, and use underwater photosynthesis to get food or forming warty to fruticose thalli.

Corallinales

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 471 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 3544 occurrencesOrdovician — about 24 of 3544 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 12 of 3544 occurrencesDevonian — about 4 of 3544 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 16 of 3544 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 3544 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 3544 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 3544 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 3544 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 3544 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 3544 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 6 of 3544 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 95 of 3544 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 120 of 3544 occurrencesPaleocene — about 525 of 3544 occurrencesEocene — about 720 of 3544 occurrencesOligocene — about 252 of 3544 occurrencesMiocene — about 1018 of 3544 occurrencesPliocene — about 184 of 3544 occurrencesPleistocene — about 354 of 3544 occurrences496–480 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences480–463 Mya — about 5 occurrences463–447 Mya — about 14 occurrences447–430 Mya — about 10 occurrences430–413 Mya — about 7 occurrences413–397 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences397–380 Mya — about 2 occurrences364–347 Mya — about 2 occurrences347–331 Mya — about 6 occurrences331–314 Mya — about 6 occurrences314–298 Mya — about 1 occurrence281–265 Mya — about 3 occurrences265–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–232 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences232–215 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences165–149 Mya — about 5 occurrences149–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–116 Mya — about 29 occurrences116–99 Mya — about 73 occurrences99–83 Mya — about 71 occurrences83–66 Mya — about 41 occurrences66–50 Mya — about 768 occurrences50–33 Mya — about 489 occurrences33–17 Mya — about 508 occurrences17–0 Mya — about 1499 occurrences471.3 Mya11.7 ka496 Mya0 Mya

3,544 occurrences of Corallinales 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

3,544 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

238 formations

Sylhet Formation — 25.26°N, 91.72°ETortonian Limestone — 35.00°N, 24.76°ESinjar — 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°ESinjar — 36.35°N, 41.50°ESinjar — 36.36°N, 41.83°ESinjar — 36.66°N, 44.24°ELakadong — 25.19°N, 91.76°ELakadong — 25.16°N, 92.39°EUmatac — 13.33°N, 144.68°EUmatac — 13.43°N, 144.72°EUmatac — 13.50°N, 144.78°EGuitar Formation — 9.12°N, 92.80°EPinczow — 50.47°N, 20.80°EPinczow — 50.52°N, 20.53°EMolare — 44.37°N, 8.20°EMolare — 44.50°N, 8.48°EMolare — 44.50°N, 8.36°EZongpu — 28.07°N, 89.19°EZongpu — 28.29°N, 88.59°EZongpu — 28.30°N, 88.66°EZongpu — 28.30°N, 88.51°EMiyara — 24.42°N, 124.08°EMiyara — 24.35°N, 124.22°EMiyara — 24.52°N, 124.28°EMiyara — 24.43°N, 124.25°ENovaglie — 39.87°N, 18.38°ENovaglie — 39.78°N, 18.37°ENovaglie — 39.78°N, 18.33°ETziqlag — 31.57°N, 34.62°ETziqlag — 31.30°N, 34.62°ETziqlag — 31.65°N, 34.72°ETziqlag — 32.08°N, 34.88°ETziqlag — 31.80°N, 34.73°ETziqlag — 31.83°N, 34.97°ETziqlag — 32.78°N, 35.12°EMauddud Limestone — 30.50°N, 47.68°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.95°N, 14.35°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.33°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.38°ENavarri — 42.40°N, 0.40°EMarne di Priabona — 45.43°N, 11.55°ECluj Limestone — 46.70°N, 23.56°ECluj Limestone — 46.75°N, 23.38°ESerraduy — 42.41°N, 0.40°ESerraduy — 42.32°N, 0.57°ETaballar Limestone — 0.48°S, 117.11°ETaballar Limestone — 0.43°S, 117.14°ELakadong Limestone — 25.19°N, 91.76°ELakadong Limestone — 25.27°N, 91.73°EChaya — 21.97°N, 70.50°EChaya — 23.33°N, 71.93°EChaya — 21.58°N, 69.63°EChaya — 22.42°N, 69.00°ESylhet Limestone — 23.73°N, 87.90°ESylhet Limestone — 23.03°N, 88.58°ESylhet Limestone — 22.85°N, 87.91°ESylhet Limestone — 22.31°N, 88.28°ESylhet Limestone — 22.59°N, 88.01°ESylhet Limestone — 23.10°N, 88.55°ESylhet Limestone — 22.21°N, 88.17°ESylhet Limestone — 22.90°N, 88.50°EQom Formation — 34.51°N, 50.95°EGornji Grad — 46.19°N, 14.68°EGornji Grad — 46.32°N, 14.59°EGornji Grad — 46.28°N, 14.25°E

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The named rock units Corallinales has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 214 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,599 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Corallinales and its relatives

Miocene

Where Corallinales and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,225 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,029 sites for Corallinales, 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

442 references

Each of the 3,544 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. 430 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 Corallinales

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User:FalsePerc
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CC BY 2.5
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the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Corallinales 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.

The description on this site

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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. Silva and Johansen 1986