Goniolithon

Goniolithon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CorallinaceaePBDB
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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesMiocene — about 11 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 16 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

16 occurrences of Goniolithon 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

16 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

1 formation

Umatac — 13.28°N, 144.68°EUmatac — 13.43°N, 144.72°E

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The named rock units Goniolithon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Goniolithon and its relatives

Miocene

Where Goniolithon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Goniolithon, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 16 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 content1

Picture of Goniolithon

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Goniolithon 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 itCorallinaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foslie 1898