Lithodinia

Lithodinia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DinophyceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 3 of 5 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 5 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous169–168 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165.3 Mya132.6 Mya169 Mya124.9 Mya

5 occurrences of Lithodinia on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

5 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

3 formations

Blisworth Clay — 53.50°N, 0.33°WBlisworth Limestone — 53.50°N, 0.33°WAgrio — 38.42°S, 70.00°W

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The named rock units Lithodinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lithodinia and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Lithodinia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

82 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lithodinia, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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

Media content1

Picture of Lithodinia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lithodinia 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 itDinophyceae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eisenack 1935