Sporolithon
Searched as Sporolithon legeonii. The Paleobiology Database treats Sporolithon as the accepted name.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SporolithaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta
Time the record covers
At least 28 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
2 occurrences of Sporolithon on record. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Sporolithon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
556 taxa- Lithothamnion99 sites
- Mesophyllum62 sites
- Polystrata alba58 sites
- Lithoporella52 sites
- Nummulites31 sites
- Spongites30 sites
- Halimeda28 sites
- Lithophyllum26 sites
- Distichoplax biserialis25 sites
- Lithoporella melobesioides24 sites
- Discocyclina22 sites
- Elianella elegans21 sites
- Neomeris21 sites
- Neogoniolithon19 sites
- Acicularia18 sites
- Operculina18 sites
- Corallina17 sites
- Melobesioideae17 sites
- Miscellanea16 sites
- Cymopolia15 sites
- Planorbulina cretae14 sites
- Bryozoa12 sites
- Haddonia praeheissigi12 sites
- Solenomeris12 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 451 sites for Sporolithon, 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
2 references- Coralline Algae at the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Southern Pyrenees (N Spain)1
- Late Chattian platform carbonates with benthic foraminifera and coralline algae from the SE Iberian plate1
Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Sporolithon
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Sporolithon 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 itSporolithaceae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rothpletz 1891