Lithothamnion corallioides
Jules Richard · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
- LithothamnionPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka.
6 occurrences of Lithothamnion corallioides on record. 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
6 occurrences- Eocene33%
- Miocene17%
- Pliocene33%
- Pleistocene17%
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
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The named rock units Lithothamnion corallioides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Lithophyllum incrustans2 sites
- Lithothamnion minervae2 sites
- Mesophyllum2 sites
- Mesophyllum alternans2 sites
- Mesophyllum lichenoides2 sites
- Titanoderma pustulatum2 sites
- Lithophyllum1 site
- Lithophyllum dentatum1 site
- Lithothamnion ramosissimum1 site
- Lithothamnion valens1 site
- Mesophyllum alterans1 site
- Neogoniolithon1 site
- Phymatolithon calcareum1 site
- Spongites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lithothamnion corallioides, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
5 references- Palaeoenvironmental and stratigraphic significance of Pliocene rhodolith beds and coralline algal bioconstructions from the Carboneras Basin (SE Spain)2
- Priabonian non-geniculate coralline algae from the Central Carpathian Paleogene Basin1
- Early Priabonian Mesophyllum dominated coralline algal assemblage from coastal upwelling settings (Central Carpathian Paleogene Basin, Slovakia)1
- Paleoecology and dynamics of coralline dominated facies during a Pleistocene transgressive–regressive cycle (Capo Colonna marine terrace, Southern Italy)1
- Coralline algae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) in western and central Mediterranean Messinian reefs1
Each of the 6 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 Lithothamnion corallioides
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Jules Richard
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lithothamnion corallioides 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 itLithothamnion through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Batters 1892