Neogoniolithon

Neogoniolithon

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · 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
SpongitaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 6 of 177 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 35 of 177 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 43 of 177 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 43 of 177 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 177 occurrencesPleistocene — about 22 of 177 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 15 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 13 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 15 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 15 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 9 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 11 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 43 occurrences59.24 Mya11.7 ka63 Mya0 Mya

177 occurrences of Neogoniolithon on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

177 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

Taballar Limestone — 0.48°S, 117.11°ETaballar Limestone — 0.43°S, 117.14°ENovaglie — 39.87°N, 18.38°ENovaglie — 39.78°N, 18.33°ENovaglie — 39.78°N, 18.37°EMarne di Priabona — 45.43°N, 11.55°EEl Bosque — 37.90°N, 1.57°WLakadong — 25.19°N, 91.76°EGornji Grad — 46.28°N, 14.25°EGornji Grad Beds — 46.28°N, 14.80°EDwarka — 21.72°N, 69.55°EDwarka — 21.75°N, 69.48°ENovaglie — 37.13°N, 2.08°WMolare — 44.50°N, 8.48°ECalcari Nummulitici — 45.42°N, 11.55°ECanada — 37.59°N, 3.15°WCanada — 38.20°N, 2.22°WManiyara Fort — 23.47°N, 68.61°EManiyara Fort — 23.71°N, 68.77°E"Orbulina marls" — 41.17°N, 14.63°ENago Limestone — 45.89°N, 10.88°ERudeis — 27.30°N, 33.58°EBaucina — 37.82°N, 12.80°EIronshore — 19.33°N, 81.25°WCalcare Massiccio — 42.93°N, 11.87°ECala di Labra — 41.37°N, 9.18°ECalcareniti di Castelgomberto — 45.48°N, 11.58°EPesco Falcone — 42.17°N, 14.10°EFulra — 23.81°N, 69.07°EUpper Istebna Sandstone — 49.87°N, 20.77°E

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The named rock units Neogoniolithon 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. 108 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neogoniolithon and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Neogoniolithon and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

404 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 117 sites for Neogoniolithon, 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

63 references

Each of the 177 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. 51 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 Neogoniolithon

Credit
James St. John
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Neogoniolithon 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Setchell and Mason 1943