Lithophyllum prelichenoides

Lithophyllum prelichenoides

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LithophyllumPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 77 occurrencesMiocene — about 67 of 77 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 77 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 77 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–20 Mya — about 6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15.98 Mya2.58 Mya23.5 Mya0 Mya

77 occurrences of Lithophyllum prelichenoides 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

77 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

4 formations

Tziqlag — 31.30°N, 34.62°ETziqlag — 31.57°N, 34.62°ETziqlag — 31.80°N, 34.73°ETziqlag — 31.83°N, 34.97°ETziqlag — 32.78°N, 35.12°EUmatac — 13.27°N, 144.68°EPinczow — 50.52°N, 20.53°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.38°E

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The named rock units Lithophyllum prelichenoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 45 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lithophyllum prelichenoides and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lithophyllum prelichenoides and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

219 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Lithophyllum prelichenoides, 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

9 references

Each of the 77 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 Lithophyllum prelichenoides

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iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Lemoine 1917