Lithothamnion saxorum
No picture of Lithothamnion saxorum 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 saxorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LithothamnionPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Lithothamnion saxorum on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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.
Lithothamnion saxorum and its relatives
MioceneWhere Lithothamnion saxorum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Lithophyllum capederi2 sites
- Lithoporella melobesioides2 sites
- Lithophyllum1 site
- Lithophyllum prelichenoides1 site
- Lithothamnion florea1 site
- Melobesioideae1 site
- Mesophyllum1 site
- Mesophyllum commune1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Lithothamnion saxorum, 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
2 references- Middle Miocene rhodoliths from the Korytnica Basin (southern Poland): environmental significance and paleontology2
- On the calcareous algae (Melobesioideae) of Gebel Gharra (Cario-Suez road) with a local zonation and some possible correlations2
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Lithothamnion saxorum 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 saxorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lithothamnion saxorum 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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Capeder 1900