Archaeolithophyllum

Archaeolithophyllum is a genus of conceptacle-bearing red alga that falls in the coralline stem group. It somewhat resembles Lithophyllum.

No picture of Archaeolithophyllum 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 Archaeolithophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArchaeolithophyllaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cryptonemiales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cryptonemiales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Cryptonemiales
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cryptonemiales

Time the record covers

At least 229 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 66 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 39 of 45 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 5 of 45 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 45 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 45 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 45 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 45 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 45 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 45 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 45 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 45 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 45 occurrences352–343 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences343–333 Mya — about 2 occurrences333–323 Mya — about 2 occurrences323–313 Mya — about 6 occurrences313–304 Mya — about 16 occurrences304–294 Mya — about 14 occurrences294–284 Mya — about 1 occurrence265–255 Mya — about 2 occurrences109–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330.3 Mya100.5 Mya352 Mya60 Mya

45 occurrences of Archaeolithophyllum on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

45 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

23 formations

Oread Limestone — 36.75°N, 96.31°WOread Limestone — 36.92°N, 96.28°WOread Limestone — 37.77°N, 95.96°WOread Limestone — 39.11°N, 95.11°WOread Limestone — 39.81°N, 94.87°WOread Limestone — 41.16°N, 94.90°WOread Limestone — 41.35°N, 94.30°WOread Limestone — 41.31°N, 94.20°WAuernig — 46.59°N, 13.17°ELazy Bend — 32.05°N, 95.50°WLazy Bend — 32.55°N, 97.99°WSnaky Canyon — 43.65°N, 113.27°WCuera Limestone — 43.45°N, 4.92°WPuentelles — 43.32°N, 4.87°WPuentelles — 43.33°N, 4.60°WPitkin — 35.93°N, 94.02°WPitkin — 35.80°N, 92.53°WNam Mahoran — 17.26°N, 101.83°ENam Mahoran — 17.24°N, 101.84°EStanton Limestone — 37.71°N, 95.69°WCapitan — 32.19°N, 104.36°WLaborcita — 33.10°N, 105.98°WDennis — 38.42°N, 94.75°WMullaghfin — 53.90°N, 6.73°WFort Scott — 37.42°N, 94.93°WWapanucka — 34.83°N, 95.55°WSausbee — 35.55°N, 95.17°WPicos de Europa — 43.13°N, 4.85°WSan Emiliano — 42.95°N, 5.55°WValdeteja — 43.35°N, 4.77°WBoggy — 34.43°N, 96.96°WBachende — 42.95°N, 5.13°WSmedvinskaya — 48.30°N, 39.84°EMiller Creek and Wentworth Station — 45.02°N, 64.06°W

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The named rock units Archaeolithophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Archaeolithophyllum and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Archaeolithophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

353 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Archaeolithophyllum, 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

30 references

Each of the 45 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. 18 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 content0

No picture of Archaeolithophyllum 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 Archaeolithophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Archaeolithophyllum 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.

The description on this site

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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. Johnson 1956