Mastophoroideae
The Mastophoroideae are a subfamily of Corallinaceaen coralline algae with uniporate conceptacles.

Cataneo et Fernandes; Delle Chiaie, S.; Pietro, Marc di · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HydrolithaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta
Time the record covers
At least 119 million years on record.
The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 0 Mya.
523 occurrences of Mastophoroideae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
523 occurrences- Early Cretaceousunder 1%
- Late Cretaceousunder 1%
- Paleocene10%
- Eocene43%
- Oligocene10%
- Miocene19%
- Pliocene4%
- Pleistocene8%
- Holocene5%
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
71 formations
- Sylhet Formation Formation30
- Lakadong Formation · Sylhet Limestone Group21
- Zongpu Formation20
- Marne di Priabona Formation20
- Umatac Formation16
- Guitar Formation Formation15
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The named rock units Mastophoroideae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 193 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mastophoroideae and its relatives
EoceneWhere Mastophoroideae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
882 taxa- Lithoporella116 sites
- Lithoporella melobesioides115 sites
- Lithothamnion111 sites
- Sporolithon86 sites
- Mesophyllum77 sites
- Lithophyllum68 sites
- Spongites52 sites
- Polystrata alba44 sites
- Neogoniolithon29 sites
- Halimeda28 sites
- Distichoplax biserialis24 sites
- Porites22 sites
- Nummulites20 sites
- Amphistegina19 sites
- Heterostegina19 sites
- Melobesioideae18 sites
- Corallina16 sites
- Discocyclina16 sites
- Lithoporella minus14 sites
- Operculina14 sites
- Lockhartia13 sites
- Neomeris13 sites
- Ovulites12 sites
- Solenomeris12 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 367 sites for Mastophoroideae, 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
135 references- Fossil and recent calcareous algae from Guam34
- The Enigmatic Paleocene-Eocene coralline Distichoplax: Approaching the structural complexities, ecological affinities and extinction hypotheses30
- Upper Eocene larger foraminiferal–coralline algal facies from the Klokova Mountain (southern continental Greece)29
- Coralline Algae at the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Southern Pyrenees (N Spain)22
- Larger foraminiferal and coralline algal facies in an Upper Eocene storm-influenced, shallow-water carbonate platform (Colli Berici, north-eastern Italy)20
- Paleogene calcium algae fossils and sedimentary environment in Yadongduna area, southern Tibet19
- Facies analysis and paleoenvironmental interpretation of Piacenzian carbonate deposits from the Guitar Formation of Car Nicobar Island, India15
- Facies and palaeoecology of rhodoliths and acervulinid macroids in the Eocene of the Krappfeld (Austria)14
- Coralline Algae and Benthic Foraminifera from the Long Formation (middle Miocene) of the Little Andaman Island, India: Biofacies Analysis, Systematics and Palaeoenvironmental Implications12
- Coralline red algal limestones of the late Eocene alpine Foreland Basin in Upper Austria: Component analysis, facies and palecology12
- Sedimentary facies and depositional environments of the Oligocene–early Miocene marine Qom Formation, Central Iran Back-Arc Basin, Iran (northeastern margin of the Tethyan Seaway)11
- Thanetian-Ilerdian coralline algae and benthic foraminifera from northeast India: microfacies analysis and new insights into the Tethyan perspective11
Each of the 523 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. 123 further references are not listed. 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 Mastophoroideae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Cataneo et Fernandes; Delle Chiaie, S.; Pietro, Marc di
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Mastophoroideae 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itHydrolithaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Setchell 1943