Albizia

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FabaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.
26 occurrences of Albizia 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
26 occurrences- Eocene4%
- Miocene63%
- Pliocene14%
- Pleistocene12%
- Holocene8%
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
12 formations
- Bangmai Formation3
- Xiaolongtan Formation3
- Rajdanda Formation2
- Nanlin Formation2
- Haridwar Formation · Siwalik Group1
- Lower Churia Formation · Siwalik Group1
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The named rock units Albizia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Albizia and its relatives
MioceneWhere Albizia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
630 taxa- Acer9 sites
- Quercus9 sites
- Carpinus8 sites
- Alnus7 sites
- Salix7 sites
- Betula6 sites
- Cinnamomum6 sites
- Juglans6 sites
- Rhus6 sites
- Ulmus6 sites
- Celtis5 sites
- Ficus5 sites
- Fraxinus5 sites
- Lindera5 sites
- Myrica5 sites
- Sophora5 sites
- Fabaceae4 sites
- Gleditsia4 sites
- Lithocarpus4 sites
- Litsea4 sites
- Nothaphoebe4 sites
- Pistacia4 sites
- Polygonum4 sites
- Quercus (Cyclobalanopsis)4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Albizia, 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
10 references- A catalogue of Cenozoic megafossil plants in China8
- Angiospermous fossil leaves from the Siwalik foreland basins and their palaeoclimatic implications5
- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 6: Cenozoic (Quaternary) Palynology and Palaeobotany3
- Pliocene Albizia (Fabaceae) from Jharkhand, eastern India: reappraisal of its biogeography during the Cenozoic in Southeast Asia2
- Pleistocene fossil leaflets of Albizia kalkora (Roxb.) Prain (Leguminosae subfamily Mimosoideae) from central Honshu, Japan, and its implications for historical biogeography2
- Quantitative climate reconstructions of the late Miocene Xiaolongtan megaflora from Yunnan, southwest China2
- Paleoclimatic estimation reveals a weak winter monsoon in southwestern China during the late Miocene: Evidence from plant macrofossils1
- Quantitative reconstruction of the Late Miocene monsoon climates of southwest China: A case study of the Lincang flora from Yunnan Province1
- Fossil flora from the Himalayan foot-hills of Darjeeling District, West Bengal and its palaeoecological and phytogeographical significance1
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants1
Each of the 26 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
Media content2

Picture of Albizia
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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 itFabaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Durazzini 1772