Lithoporella melobesioides

Lithoporella melobesioides

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 113 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 249 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 249 occurrencesPaleocene — about 33 of 249 occurrencesEocene — about 114 of 249 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 24 of 249 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 53 of 249 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 249 occurrencesPleistocene — about 14 of 249 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–57 Mya — about 24 occurrences57–53 Mya — about 15 occurrences53–49 Mya — about 9 occurrences49–45 Mya — about 12 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 12 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 25 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 52 occurrences33–28 Mya — about 10 occurrences28–24 Mya — about 8 occurrences24–20 Mya — about 9 occurrences20–16 Mya — about 19 occurrences16–12 Mya — about 6 occurrences12–8.1 Mya — about 9 occurrences8.1–4.1 Mya — about 14 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 22 occurrences113.2 Mya11.7 ka122 Mya0 Mya

249 occurrences of Lithoporella melobesioides on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

249 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

40 formations

Marne di Priabona — 45.43°N, 11.55°EZongpu — 28.07°N, 89.19°EUmatac — 13.33°N, 144.68°EUmatac — 13.50°N, 144.78°EDobranberg Formation — 46.83°N, 14.53°ELakadong — 25.16°N, 92.39°EGornji Grad — 46.28°N, 14.25°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.38°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.87°N, 14.33°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°ECluj Limestone — 46.70°N, 23.56°ECluj Limestone — 46.75°N, 23.38°EMolare — 44.37°N, 8.20°EMolare — 44.50°N, 8.48°EPrang — 25.18°N, 92.38°EPrang — 25.18°N, 91.77°EAlutom — 13.40°N, 144.68°ENavarri — 42.38°N, 0.39°ETziqlag — 31.30°N, 34.62°ESerraduy — 42.32°N, 0.57°EGornji Grad Beds — 46.28°N, 14.80°ECalcareniti di Castelgomberto — 45.48°N, 11.58°ERoaia — 47.59°N, 24.02°EChhasra — 22.83°N, 68.15°EBorové — 49.28°N, 19.75°ENago Limestone — 45.89°N, 10.88°ETziqla — 32.32°N, 35.00°EKlokova — 38.35°N, 21.68°EVrachionas — 37.80°N, 20.75°E

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The named rock units Lithoporella melobesioides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 74 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lithoporella melobesioides and its relatives

Eocene

Where Lithoporella melobesioides and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

418 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 166 sites for Lithoporella melobesioides, 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

60 references

Each of the 249 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. 48 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 Lithoporella melobesioides

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY-SA
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lithoporella melobesioides 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLithoporella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foslie 1909