Sporolithon gunteri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SporolithonPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
3 occurrences of Sporolithon gunteri on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 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
2 formations
- Prang Limestone Formation · Jaintia Group1
- Prang Formation · Sylhet Limestone Group1
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The named rock units Sporolithon gunteri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sporolithon gunteri and its relatives
EoceneWhere Sporolithon gunteri and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Actinacis cymatocllysta1 site
- Actinacis porosa1 site
- Actinacis remesi1 site
- Agathelia asperella1 site
- Bullopora multicamerata1 site
- Corallina abundans1 site
- Corallina matansa1 site
- Discocyclina1 site
- Elianella elegans1 site
- Epiphaxum1 site
- Fischerina1 site
- Gypsina ogormani1 site
- Lithophyllum continuum1 site
- Lithophyllum densum1 site
- Lithophyllum dubium1 site
- Lithophyllum quadrangulum1 site
- Lithoporella melobesioides1 site
- Lithothamnium andrusovi1 site
- Lithothamnium contraversum1 site
- Melobesioideae1 site
- Mesophyllum1 site
- Mesophyllum mengaudii1 site
- Miniacina multiformis1 site
- Nummulites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Sporolithon gunteri, 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
3 references- Palaeoecological implications of Corallinacean red algae and Halimedacean green algae from the Prang Formation of south Shillong Plateau, Meghalaya1
- Coralline algae from the Prang Formation (Eocene) of the South Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, India1
- Contribution to the knowledge of the Palaeogene reef-complexes of the Myjava-Hricov-Haligovka Zone (West Carpathians)1
Each of the 3 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
Media content0
No picture of Sporolithon gunteri 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 Sporolithon gunteri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sporolithon gunteri 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.
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What may have been alongside itSporolithon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Johnson and Ferris 1948