Lithothamnion

Searched as Lithothamnium andrusovi. The Paleobiology Database treats Lithothamnion as the accepted name.

Lithothamnion

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 33 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 8 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 8 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 8 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66.6 Mya33.3 Mya

8 occurrences of Lithothamnion on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

8 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

5 formations

Lapithas — 37.52°N, 21.63°EGavrovo — 39.02°N, 21.15°EKlokova — 38.35°N, 21.68°EAkros — 37.65°N, 23.12°EMiyara — 24.37°N, 124.22°E

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The named rock units Lithothamnion has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lithothamnion and its relatives

Eocene

Where Lithothamnion and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,056 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 525 sites for Lithothamnion, and this reads 240 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

3 references

Each of the 8 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 content2

Picture of Lithothamnion

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itLithothamniacae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Philippi