Titanoderma pustulatum

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TitanodermaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.
48 occurrences of Titanoderma pustulatum on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
48 occurrences- Oligocene2%
- Miocene39%
- Pliocene23%
- Pleistocene29%
- Holocene6%
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
8 formations
- Novaglie Formation9
- Calcare Massiccio Formation2
- Huy Bay Formation2
- Novaglie Formation1
- Chaya Formation1
- Qom Formation1
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The named rock units Titanoderma pustulatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Titanoderma pustulatum and its relatives
MioceneWhere Titanoderma pustulatum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Spongites8 sites
- Lithophyllum7 sites
- Lithothamnion6 sites
- Mesophyllum6 sites
- Neogoniolithon6 sites
- Halimeda5 sites
- Phymatolithon calcareum5 sites
- Lithophyllum incrustans4 sites
- Lithothamnion minervae4 sites
- Amphiroa3 sites
- Echinoidea3 sites
- Lithothamnion ramosissimum3 sites
- Mesophyllum alterans3 sites
- Mesophyllum alternans3 sites
- Mesophyllum lichenoides3 sites
- Porites3 sites
- Serpulidae3 sites
- Sporolithon3 sites
- Borelis2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Corallina2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Lithophaga2 sites
- Lithophyllum dentatum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Titanoderma pustulatum, and this reads all 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
22 references- Coralline algae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) in western and central Mediterranean Messinian reefs9
- Taxonomy of fossil coralline algal species: Neogene Lithophylloideae (Rhodophyta, Corallinaceae) from southern Spain6
- Palaeoenvironmental and stratigraphic significance of Pliocene rhodolith beds and coralline algal bioconstructions from the Carboneras Basin (SE Spain)4
- The impact of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition on the composition of submerged reefs of the Maui Nui Complex, Hawaii3
- Coralline algal assemblages in upper Neogene reef and temperate carbonates in Southern Spain3
- Middle Miocene carbonate facies with rhodoliths from the NW Transylvanian Basin (Vălenii Șomcutei Cave, Romania)2
- Paleoecology and dynamics of coralline dominated facies during a Pleistocene transgressive–regressive cycle (Capo Colonna marine terrace, Southern Italy)2
- Deglacial mesophotic reef demise on the Great Barrier Reef2
- Coralline red algal assemblage from the Middle Pliocene shallow-water temperate carbonates of the Monte Cetona (Northern Apennines, Italy)2
- Pleistocene coralline algal build-ups (corallige`ne de plateau) and associated bioclastic deposits in the sedimentary cover of Cutro marine terrace (Calabria, southern Italy)2
- Calcareous algae from the limestone unit of Hut Bay Formation (Late Middle Miocene) of Little Andaman Island, India2
- Lower Oligocene coralline algae of the Uromieh section (Qom Formation, NW Iran) and the oldest record of Titanoderma pustulatum (Corallinophycidae, Rhodophyta)1
Each of the 48 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. 10 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

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No 3D scan of Titanoderma pustulatum 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamouroux 1816)