Palaeothamnium
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CorallinaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Corallinaceae
- Life habit
- epifaunal, clonalPBDB, for Corallinaceae
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Corallinaceae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Corallinaceae
Time the record covers
At least 47 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
13 occurrences of Palaeothamnium on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
13 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Pinczow Formation5
- Czerwin Glauconitic Sandstone Formation1
- Zhepure Shan Formation1
- Zilina Formation1
- Polo Formation1
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The named rock units Palaeothamnium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Palaeothamnium and its relatives
MioceneWhere Palaeothamnium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Lithothamnion5 sites
- Archaeolithothamnium2 sites
- Jania ucrainica2 sites
- Karpathia sphaerocellulosa2 sites
- Lithophyllum2 sites
- Lithophyllum albanense2 sites
- Lithophyllum anguineum2 sites
- Lithophyllum kamptneri2 sites
- Lithophyllum lithothamnioides2 sites
- Lithophyllum nitorum2 sites
- Lithophyllum prelichenoides2 sites
- Lithothamnion romosissimum2 sites
- Lithothamnium gaschei2 sites
- Lithothamnium lacroixi2 sites
- Lithothamnium praefruticulosum2 sites
- Lithothamnium ramosissimum2 sites
- Lithothamnium saxorum2 sites
- Mesophyllum galettoi2 sites
- Mesophyllum ingestum2 sites
- Mesophyllum koritzae2 sites
- Mesophyllum rigidum2 sites
- Sporolithon keenani2 sites
- Amphistegina1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Palaeothamnium, 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
7 references- Red algae from the Pinczow limestones (middle Miocene, Swietokrzyskie mountains, Poland)5
- Middle Miocene rhodoliths from the Korytnica Basin (southern Poland): environmental significance and paleontology2
- Les algues des formations transgressives maestrichtiennes, paléocènes et yprésiennes de la côte sud-orientale de la Corse2
- Middle Eocene Rhodoliths from Tropical and Mid-Latitude Regions1
- The Northern Carpathians plate tectonic evolutionary stages and origin of olistoliths and olistostromes1
- Paleocene bryozoan-algal allodapic limestones-Czerwin glauconitic sandstones-their geological position in the flysch of the Subsilesian Unit of Outer Carpathian in Poland1
- Marine Cretaceous-Paleogene biofacies and ichnofacies in southern Tibet, China, and their sedimentary significance1
Each of the 13 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. 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
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No picture of Palaeothamnium was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaeothamnium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaeothamnium was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCorallinaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conti 1945