Sporolithales

No picture of Sporolithales was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sporolithales itself, so it was not used. 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 Sporolithales, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 132 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 21 of 599 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 12 of 599 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 117 of 599 occurrencesEocene — about 264 of 599 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 70 of 599 occurrencesMiocene — about 86 of 599 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 599 occurrencesPleistocene — about 19 of 599 occurrences140–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 2 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 3 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–116 Mya — about 5 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 4 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–65 Mya — about 4 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 21 occurrences61–56 Mya — about 94 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 57 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 50 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 35 occurrences42–37 Mya — about 45 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 79 occurrences33–28 Mya — about 18 occurrences28–23 Mya — about 44 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 16 occurrences19–14 Mya — about 29 occurrences14–9.3 Mya — about 26 occurrences9.3–4.7 Mya — about 18 occurrences4.7–0 Mya — about 28 occurrences132.6 Mya11.7 ka140 Mya0 Mya

599 occurrences of Sporolithales 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

599 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

117 formations

Sylhet Formation — 25.26°N, 91.72°EDobranberg Formation — 46.83°N, 14.53°ELakadong — 25.16°N, 92.39°ELakadong — 25.19°N, 91.76°EMarne di Priabona — 45.52°N, 11.54°EMarne di Priabona — 45.43°N, 11.55°EPrang — 25.18°N, 92.38°EPrang — 25.18°N, 91.77°ENavarri — 42.38°N, 0.39°ESerraduy — 42.32°N, 0.57°ECluj Limestone — 46.70°N, 23.56°ECluj Limestone — 46.75°N, 23.38°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.42°ERasov — 48.80°N, 17.73°ECanada — 37.59°N, 3.15°WCanada — 38.20°N, 2.22°WHricocske Podhradie — 49.22°N, 18.46°EHricocske Podhradie — 49.22°N, 18.70°EGornji Grad — 46.19°N, 14.68°EGornji Grad — 46.28°N, 14.26°EGornji Grad — 46.28°N, 14.25°ECalcari a Briozoi e Litotamni — 42.06°N, 13.24°ECalcari a Briozoi e Litotamni — 41.40°N, 14.01°ECalcari a Briozoi e Litotamni — 41.45°N, 13.92°ECalcari a Briozoi e Litotamni — 41.53°N, 13.77°ECalcari a Briozoi e Litotamni — 41.64°N, 13.66°EKambuhel Limestone — 48.57°N, 17.39°ETaballar Limestone — 0.48°S, 117.11°EPinczow — 50.52°N, 20.53°EBassein — 18.93°N, 72.48°EBassein — 18.92°N, 72.41°ESylhet Limestone — 22.31°N, 88.28°ESylhet Limestone — 22.59°N, 88.01°ESylhet Limestone — 23.10°N, 88.55°ESylhet Limestone — 22.21°N, 88.17°ESylhet Limestone — 22.90°N, 88.50°EBarra Honda — 10.34°N, 85.39°WBarra Honda — 8.40°N, 83.03°WKravarikovci — 48.73°N, 17.64°EKravarikovci — 49.11°N, 18.44°EProc — 49.05°N, 21.46°EProc — 48.81°N, 22.32°EKambuhel Limestone — 47.54°N, 13.50°ESedini — 40.82°N, 8.83°E

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The named rock units Sporolithales has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 93 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 170 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sporolithales and its relatives

Eocene

Where Sporolithales and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

583 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 464 sites for Sporolithales, 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

175 references

Each of the 599 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. 163 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 content0

No picture of Sporolithales was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sporolithales itself, so it was not used.

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 Sporolithales, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sporolithales 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 itCorallinophycidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Le Gall et al. 2010