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Sporolithon airoldii ✝
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| Rank | species (PBDB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Plantae : Rhodophyta : Rhodophyceae : Corallinales : Sporolithaceae : Sporolithon : Sporolithon airoldii | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 33.9 - 28.1 Ma Oligocene | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Recorded Appearance | 33.9 - 23.0 Ma Cenozoic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | coastal,inner shelf,marine (based on Rhodophyceae) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motility | stationary (based on Rhodophyceae) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diet | photoautotroph (based on Rhodophyceae) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taphonomy | high Mg calcite,porous (based on Rhodophyceae) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | D. Basso, G. Coletti, and V. A. Bracchi, M. Yazdi-Moghadam. 2019. Lower Oligocene coralline algae of the Uromieh section (Qom Formation, NW Iran) and the oldest record of Titanoderma pustulatum (Corallinophycidae, Rhodophyta). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 125(1):197-218 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Synonymy List
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| 2010 | Sporolithon airoldii Vannucci et al. |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
