Lithothamnion muelleri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LithothamnionPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.
4 occurrences of Lithothamnion muelleri on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene25%
- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene25%
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 Lithothamnion muelleri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lithothamnion muelleri and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Lithothamnion muelleri and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Acropora humilis1 site
- Alveopora1 site
- Carpenteria1 site
- Cyphastrea1 site
- Faviidae1 site
- Goniastrea stelligera1 site
- Harveylithon rupestris1 site
- Homotrema1 site
- Hydrolithon1 site
- Montipora caliculata1 site
- Neogoniolithon1 site
- Peyssonnelia1 site
- Phymatolithon1 site
- Pocillopora verrucosa1 site
- Polystrata1 site
- Porites1 site
- Rupertia1 site
- Sporadotrema1 site
- Sporolithon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Lithothamnion muelleri, 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
4 references- Early Priabonian Mesophyllum dominated coralline algal assemblage from coastal upwelling settings (Central Carpathian Paleogene Basin, Slovakia)1
- Deglacial mesophotic reef demise on the Great Barrier Reef1
- The impact of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition on the composition of submerged reefs of the Maui Nui Complex, Hawaii1
- A 300000-yr coral reef record of sea level changes, Mururoa atoll (Tuamotu archipelago, French Polynesia)1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Lithothamnion muelleri
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lithothamnion muelleri 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 itLithothamnion through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rosanoff 1866