Lithothamnion ramosissimum

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 56 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 47 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 47 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 47 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 27 of 47 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 47 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 47 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 47 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 14 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 12 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 6 occurrences12–9.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.4–7.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.2–5.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.0–2.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.7–516 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence59.24 Mya2.58 Mya67 Mya516 ka

47 occurrences of Lithothamnion ramosissimum on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

47 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

8 formations

Lithothamnion limestone — 45.19°N, 16.37°ELeitha Limestone — 47.98°N, 16.22°ELeitha Limestone — 47.83°N, 16.48°ETaballar Limestone — 0.46°S, 117.12°EPrang — 25.18°N, 91.77°ESinjar — 36.66°N, 44.24°ENeil West Coast — 11.83°N, 93.01°EBolognano — 42.17°N, 14.04°EBorové — 49.28°N, 19.75°E

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The named rock units Lithothamnion ramosissimum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lithothamnion ramosissimum and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Lithothamnion ramosissimum and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

88 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Lithothamnion ramosissimum, 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

12 references

Each of the 47 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 Lithothamnion ramosissimum 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 Lithothamnion ramosissimum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Lithothamnion ramosissimum 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 itLithothamnion through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Piller 1994