Lithothamnion minervae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LithothamnionPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 12.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 11.7 ka.
6 occurrences of Lithothamnion minervae on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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- Miocene17%
- Pliocene67%
- 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.
Lithothamnion minervae and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Lithothamnion minervae and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Lithophyllum incrustans4 sites
- Mesophyllum4 sites
- Titanoderma pustulatum4 sites
- Lithophyllum3 sites
- Lithothamnion ramosissimum3 sites
- Mesophyllum alterans3 sites
- Mesophyllum alternans3 sites
- Mesophyllum lichenoides3 sites
- Phymatolithon calcareum3 sites
- Spongites3 sites
- Lithophyllum dentatum2 sites
- Lithothamnion corallioides2 sites
- Neogoniolithon2 sites
- Lithothamnion orbiculatum1 site
- Lithothamnion valens1 site
- Phymatolithon1 site
- Sporolithon ptychoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Lithothamnion minervae, 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
3 references- Palaeoenvironmental and stratigraphic significance of Pliocene rhodolith beds and coralline algal bioconstructions from the Carboneras Basin (SE Spain)4
- Middle Miocene carbonate facies with rhodoliths from the NW Transylvanian Basin (Vălenii Șomcutei Cave, Romania)1
- Paleoecology and dynamics of coralline dominated facies during a Pleistocene transgressive–regressive cycle (Capo Colonna marine terrace, Southern Italy)1
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 minervae
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lithothamnion minervae 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLithothamnion through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Basso 1995