Amphiroa

Amphiroa is a genus of thalloid red algae under the family Corallinaceae.

Amphiroa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmphiroideaePBDB
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 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 3 of 190 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 190 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 51 of 190 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 17 of 190 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 190 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 45 of 190 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 28 of 190 occurrencesPleistocene — about 31 of 190 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 35 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 14 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 4 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–38 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 4 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–23 Mya — about 5 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 6 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 18 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 9 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 13 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 55 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

190 occurrences of Amphiroa on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

190 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

19 formations

Sinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 37.18°N, 43.22°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°ESinjar — 35.54°N, 45.30°EGuitar Formation — 9.12°N, 92.80°EHuy Bay — 10.59°N, 92.56°EChaya — 21.97°N, 70.50°EChaya — 23.33°N, 71.93°EChaya — 21.58°N, 69.63°EKallakudi Limestone — 11.65°N, 78.45°EVrachionas — 37.80°N, 20.75°EBonya Limestone — 13.33°N, 144.68°EZongpu — 28.30°N, 88.66°EZhepure Shan — 28.65°N, 87.16°ENeill West Coast — 11.84°N, 93.02°EDwarka — 21.72°N, 69.55°EAkros — 37.65°N, 23.12°EArachneon — 37.65°N, 23.02°EGavrovo — 39.02°N, 21.15°EUlukışla — 37.62°N, 35.00°EManiyara Fort — 23.70°N, 68.77°ESylhet — 25.23°N, 91.58°ESylhet Limestone — 22.85°N, 87.91°ENeil West Coast — 11.83°N, 93.01°E

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The named rock units Amphiroa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 100 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amphiroa and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Amphiroa and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

204 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 102 sites for Amphiroa, 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

38 references

Each of the 190 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. 26 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 Amphiroa

Credit
Show ryu
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itAmphiroideae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamoroux 1812