Lithophyllum

Lithophyllum is a genus of thalloid red algae belonging to the family Corallinaceae.

Lithophyllum

Martin Smith · CC BY-SA 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
LithophylloideaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta

Time the record covers

At least 419 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 422.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Silurian — about 2 of 796 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 796 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 796 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 796 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 796 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 796 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 796 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 796 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 796 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 796 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 37 of 796 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 23 of 796 occurrencesPaleocene — about 73 of 796 occurrencesEocene — about 70 of 796 occurrencesOligocene — about 38 of 796 occurrencesMiocene — about 406 of 796 occurrencesPliocene — about 55 of 796 occurrencesPleistocene — about 58 of 796 occurrences431–417 Mya — about 2 occurrences129–115 Mya — about 3 occurrences115–101 Mya — about 33 occurrences101–86 Mya — about 14 occurrences86–72 Mya — about 5 occurrences72–57 Mya — about 61 occurrences57–43 Mya — about 51 occurrences43–29 Mya — about 39 occurrences29–14 Mya — about 200 occurrences14–0 Mya — about 386 occurrences419.62 Mya11.7 ka431 Mya0 Mya

796 occurrences of Lithophyllum 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

796 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

79 formations

Mauddud Limestone — 30.50°N, 47.68°EPinczow — 50.47°N, 20.80°EPinczow — 50.52°N, 20.53°ETziqlag — 32.08°N, 34.88°ETziqlag — 31.30°N, 34.62°ETziqlag — 31.57°N, 34.62°ETziqlag — 31.80°N, 34.73°ETziqlag — 31.83°N, 34.97°ETziqlag — 32.78°N, 35.12°EUmatac — 13.28°N, 144.68°EUmatac — 13.50°N, 144.78°EUmatac — 13.37°N, 144.70°ETortonian Limestone — 35.00°N, 24.76°EMolare — 44.37°N, 8.20°EMolare — 44.50°N, 8.48°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.38°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.87°N, 14.33°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°ESinjar — 35.38°N, 45.49°ESinjar — 36.35°N, 41.50°ESinjar — 36.36°N, 41.83°ESinjar — 36.66°N, 44.24°EGuitar Formation — 9.12°N, 92.80°EQom Formation — 34.51°N, 50.95°ELakadong — 25.19°N, 91.76°EZongpu — 28.07°N, 89.19°EZongpu — 28.30°N, 88.51°EZongpu — 28.28°N, 88.65°ECluj Limestone — 46.70°N, 23.56°ECluj Limestone — 46.75°N, 23.38°ENovaglie — 39.87°N, 18.38°ENovaglie — 39.78°N, 18.33°ENovaglie — 39.78°N, 18.37°ESylhet Limestone — 23.73°N, 87.90°ESylhet Limestone — 23.03°N, 88.58°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°ESpanboth — 34.05°N, 76.36°EChaya — 21.97°N, 70.50°EChaya — 23.33°N, 71.93°EChaya — 22.42°N, 69.00°ECalcare Massiccio — 42.93°N, 11.87°EMiyara — 24.43°N, 124.23°EMiyara — 24.52°N, 124.28°ESchrattenkalk — 47.42°N, 10.22°ELithothamnium Limestone — 48.47°N, 16.30°EKallakudi limestone — 11.52°N, 78.82°EKallakudi limestone — 11.65°N, 78.45°EBarra Honda — 9.40°N, 84.15°WBarra Honda — 9.41°N, 84.16°WBarra Honda — 9.55°N, 84.13°WKambuhel — 49.38°N, 20.67°EKambuhel — 49.37°N, 18.54°EKambuhel — 48.79°N, 17.51°E

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The named rock units Lithophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 55 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 395 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lithophyllum and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lithophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,104 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 298 sites for Lithophyllum, 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

163 references

Each of the 796 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. 151 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 Lithophyllum

Credit
Martin Smith
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lithophyllum 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

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 itLithophylloideae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Philippi 1837