Kymalithon
No picture of Kymalithon 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 Kymalithon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
6 occurrences of Kymalithon on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
6 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Kymalithon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Kymalithon and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Kymalithon and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- <Thrombolite>1 site
- Bacinella irregularis1 site
- Berenicea1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Cladophyllia1 site
- Dimorphocoenia crassisepta1 site
- Holocoenia jaccardi1 site
- Koskinobullina socialis1 site
- Latusastrea irregularis1 site
- Lithocodium aggregatum1 site
- Mesomorpha1 site
- Placopsilina1 site
- Polyphylloseris1 site
- Porifera1 site
- Serpulidae1 site
- Sporolithon1 site
- Stelidioseris pattoni1 site
- Stylina inwaldensis1 site
- Tabulospongida1 site
- Troglotella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Kymalithon, 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
3 references- Decouverte des Algues Floridees du “Facies de Vimport” dans l'Albien des Monts Bakony (Hongrie) et donnees biostratigraphiques nouvelles sur le Mesocretace Hongrois3
- Les algues calcaires du Jurassique supérieur et du Crétacé inférieur des Corbières (2ème parte)2
- Reef development on a deepening platform: two Early Cretaceous coralgal patch reefs (Cati, Llacova Formation, eastern Spain) compared1
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Kymalithon 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 Kymalithon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kymalithon was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lemoine and Emberger 1967