Jania occidentalis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- JaniaPBDB
- 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 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
18 occurrences of Jania occidentalis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
18 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Lakadong Formation · Shlhet Limestone Group12
- Sylhet Limestone Formation3
- Sylhet Formation · Jainita Group1
- Prang Formation · Sylhet Limestone Group1
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The named rock units Jania occidentalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Jania occidentalis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Jania occidentalis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Distichoplax biserialis13 sites
- Sporolithon7 sites
- Melobesioideae6 sites
- Corallina prisca5 sites
- Halimeda5 sites
- Lithoporella5 sites
- Ovulites5 sites
- Solenomeris5 sites
- Neogoniolithon4 sites
- Polystrata alba4 sites
- Discocyclina3 sites
- Lithophyllum dentatum3 sites
- Lithoporella melobesioides3 sites
- Nummulites3 sites
- Amphiroa2 sites
- Glomalveolina2 sites
- Halimeda cylindracea2 sites
- Lithophyllum2 sites
- Operculina2 sites
- Orbitolites2 sites
- Ranikothalia2 sites
- Sporolithon aschersoni2 sites
- Textularia2 sites
- Acicularia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Jania occidentalis, 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
7 references- Calcareous algae from the Lakadong Formation of the South Shillong Plateau, NE India10
- Larger foraminiferal and calcareous algal facies in the Lakadong Formation of the south Shillong Plateau, NE India2
- Eocene fossil algae from the subcrops of the Bengal Basin2
- Calcareous algal-rich carbonate sediments from Assam shelf, N-E India: an overview of the palaeoenvironmental implications1
- Palaeoecological implications of Corallinacean red algae and Halimedacean green algae from the Prang Formation of south Shillong Plateau, Meghalaya1
- The geniculate coralline algae from the Sylhet Limestone Formation (early-middle Eocene), Bengal Basin, India: paleonvironmental implications1
- First report of coralline red algae in the late Paleocene Lakadong Limestones of Mawsynram area, Meghalaya1
Each of the 18 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 Jania occidentalis 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 Jania occidentalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Jania occidentalis 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 itJania through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Johnson and Kaska 1965