Archaeolithothamnium perplexum
No picture of Archaeolithothamnium perplexum 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 Archaeolithothamnium perplexum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchaeolithothamniumPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Archaeolithothamnium perplexum on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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.
Archaeolithothamnium perplexum and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Archaeolithothamnium perplexum and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Acicularia1 site
- Broeckella belgica1 site
- Coraster1 site
- Cymopolia1 site
- Dactylopora1 site
- Digitella1 site
- Echinocorys1 site
- Hemiaster1 site
- Hercoglossa danica1 site
- Isopneustes1 site
- Neomeris herouvalensis1 site
- Orioporella1 site
- Parachaetetes asvapatii1 site
- Polystrata alba1 site
- Scleractinia1 site
- Uteria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Archaeolithothamnium perplexum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Paleocene Calcareous Red Algae from Northern Iraq2
- Dasycladales (algues vertes) du Danien recifal d'Aquitaine occidental (France SW)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
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No picture of Archaeolithothamnium perplexum 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 Archaeolithothamnium perplexum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Archaeolithothamnium perplexum 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 itArchaeolithothamnium through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Johnson 1964