Sporolithon myriosporum
No picture of Sporolithon myriosporum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Sporolithon myriosporum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SporolithonPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Sporolithon myriosporum on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Sporolithon myriosporum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sporolithon myriosporum and its relatives
EoceneWhere Sporolithon myriosporum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Lithothamnion2 sites
- Arthrocardia cretacica1 site
- Lithoporella melobesioides1 site
- Lithoporella minus1 site
- Lithothamnion romosissimum1 site
- Mesophyllum fructiferum1 site
- Mesophyllum sanctidionysii1 site
- Sporolithon fosteri1 site
- Sporolithon lugeonii1 site
- Sporolithon praeerythraeum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sporolithon myriosporum, 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- Coralline algae from the Bassein Formation (middle to late Eocene) of Mumbai offshore basin and its paleo environmental significance1
- Part 3. Paleontology1
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. 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
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No picture of Sporolithon myriosporum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Sporolithon myriosporum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sporolithon myriosporum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSporolithon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Johnson 1957