Jania

Jania is a genus of red macroalgae with hard, calcareous, branching skeletons in the family Corallinaceae.

Jania

Massimiliano De Martino · CC BY 3.0 · 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
CorallinoideaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Corallinaceae
Life habit
epifaunal, clonalPBDB, for Corallinaceae
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Corallinaceae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Corallinaceae

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 175 occurrencesPaleocene — about 67 of 175 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 56 of 175 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 175 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 34 of 175 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 175 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 175 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–63 Mya — about 4 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 7 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 20 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 33 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 10 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 9 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 9 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 7 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 11 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–4.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.5–2.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

175 occurrences of Jania on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

175 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

35 formations

Sylhet Formation — 25.26°N, 91.72°ESinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 37.18°N, 43.22°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°ELakadong — 25.19°N, 91.76°EPinczow — 50.52°N, 20.53°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°ENavarri — 42.38°N, 0.39°EUmatac — 13.43°N, 144.72°EUmatac — 13.35°N, 144.73°EBaratang — 12.89°N, 92.90°EBaratang — 12.84°N, 92.85°EBaratang — 12.79°N, 92.87°EKambuhel Limestone — 47.54°N, 13.50°EGuitar Formation — 9.12°N, 92.80°EMolare — 44.37°N, 8.20°EMiyara — 24.55°N, 124.28°EMiyara — 24.43°N, 124.23°EFulra — 23.71°N, 68.99°ENimyo — 33.55°N, 132.69°ESerraduy — 42.32°N, 0.57°EGodhra — 23.42°N, 68.13°EPuch — 49.23°N, 19.32°EPuch — 49.26°N, 19.06°EUhrov — 49.12°N, 18.45°ENago Limestone — 45.89°N, 10.88°EDwarka — 21.72°N, 69.55°EChaya — 21.58°N, 69.63°ELapithas — 37.52°N, 21.63°EShella — 25.43°N, 92.25°E

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The named rock units Jania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 52 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Jania and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Jania and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

607 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 127 sites for Jania, 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

48 references

Each of the 175 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. 36 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 Jania

Credit
Massimiliano De Martino
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Jania was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itCorallinoideae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamoroux 1812