Aesculus indica
Aesculus indica, commonly known as the Indian horse-chestnut or Himalayan horse chestnut, is a species of deciduous broad-leaved tree in the family Sapindaceae.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Indian horse chestnutPBDB
- Sits inside
- AesculusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Aesculus indica on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Aesculus indica and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Aesculus indica and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
159 taxa- Abies3 sites
- Alnus3 sites
- Apiaceae3 sites
- Betula utilis3 sites
- Carpinus3 sites
- Cyperaceae3 sites
- Ephedra3 sites
- Fraxinus3 sites
- Pinus wallichiana3 sites
- Poaceae3 sites
- Potamogeton3 sites
- Quercus3 sites
- Salix3 sites
- Ulmus3 sites
- Viburnum3 sites
- Acer2 sites
- Acer villosum2 sites
- Alnus nepalensis2 sites
- Asteraceae2 sites
- Betula2 sites
- Betula alnoides2 sites
- Botryococcus2 sites
- Caryophyllaceae2 sites
- Corylus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Aesculus indica, 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
2 references- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 6: Cenozoic (Quaternary) Palynology and Palaeobotany2
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants1
Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Aesculus indica
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Dcruz01 ( talk ) ( Uploads )
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAesculus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hooker 1859