Titanoderma

Titanoderma

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 139 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 139 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 139 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 77 of 139 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 139 occurrencesPleistocene — about 32 of 139 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 18 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 16 occurrences10–8.1 Mya — about 18 occurrences8.1–6.0 Mya — about 16 occurrences6.0–4.0 Mya — about 11 occurrences4.0–2.0 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.0–0 Mya — about 46 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka60 Mya0 Mya

139 occurrences of Titanoderma 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

139 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

14 formations

Tortonian Limestone — 35.00°N, 24.76°ENovaglie — 39.87°N, 18.38°ENovaglie — 39.78°N, 18.33°ENovaglie — 39.78°N, 18.37°EPinczow — 50.52°N, 20.53°EKoronia — 35.05°N, 33.15°EDaito — 25.45°N, 131.17°ECalcare Massiccio — 42.93°N, 11.87°EChaya — 22.42°N, 69.00°EHuy Bay — 10.59°N, 92.56°ELindos Acropolis — 35.92°N, 27.83°ENovaglie — 37.13°N, 2.08°WQom — 37.34°N, 44.94°ESinjar — 35.50°N, 45.33°ENeill West Coast — 11.84°N, 93.02°EBolognano — 42.17°N, 14.04°E

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The named rock units Titanoderma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 76 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Titanoderma and its relatives

Miocene

Where Titanoderma and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

430 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 73 sites for Titanoderma, 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

51 references

Each of the 139 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. 39 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 Titanoderma

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itLithophylloideae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Naegeli 1858