Melobesioideae

The Melobesioideae are a subfamily of Corallinacean Coralline algae with multiporate conceptacles.

Melobesioideae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 230 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 230 occurrencesPaleocene — about 29 of 230 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 66 of 230 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 37 of 230 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 79 of 230 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 230 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 230 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 14 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 24 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 16 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 11 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 6 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 7 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 14 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 6 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 6 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 27 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 12 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 26 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 16 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 12 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 13 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

230 occurrences of Melobesioideae 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

230 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

30 formations

Sylhet Formation — 25.26°N, 91.72°EBarra Honda — 10.17°N, 85.36°WBarra Honda — 10.34°N, 85.39°WBarra Honda — 9.58°N, 84.16°WBarra Honda — 9.40°N, 84.14°WBarra Honda — 9.41°N, 84.16°WBarra Honda — 8.40°N, 83.13°WBarra Honda — 8.40°N, 83.03°WPrang — 25.18°N, 92.38°EPrang — 25.18°N, 91.77°ETortonian Limestone — 35.00°N, 24.76°EGuitar Formation — 9.12°N, 92.80°ELakadong — 25.16°N, 92.39°ELakadong — 25.19°N, 91.76°EFulra Limestone — 23.51°N, 68.61°EFulra Limestone — 23.51°N, 68.69°ENovaglie — 39.87°N, 18.38°ENovaglie — 39.78°N, 18.37°ETaballar Limestone — 0.48°S, 117.11°ETaballar Limestone — 0.43°S, 117.14°EDwarka — 21.72°N, 69.53°EDwarka — 21.72°N, 69.55°ESedini — 40.82°N, 8.83°ECastro Limestone — 40.04°N, 18.42°EEl Bosque — 37.90°N, 1.57°WManiyara Fort — 23.47°N, 68.61°EManiyara Fort — 23.71°N, 68.77°EChaya — 21.58°N, 69.63°EKallakudi limestone — 11.52°N, 78.82°ENullarbor Limestone — 30.85°S, 128.08°ECalcareniti di Castelgomberto — 45.43°N, 11.52°EBaucina — 37.82°N, 12.80°ENinniyur — 11.53°N, 79.48°ENovaglie — 37.13°N, 2.08°WPinczow — 50.52°N, 20.53°EGavrovo — 39.02°N, 21.15°EUmatac — 13.33°N, 144.68°E

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The named rock units Melobesioideae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 100 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Melobesioideae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Melobesioideae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

445 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 198 sites for Melobesioideae, 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

48 references

Each of the 230 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. 36 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 Melobesioideae

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Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Melobesioideae 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.

The description on this site

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bizzozero 1885