Arytera
Arytera is a genus of about twenty–eight species known to science, of trees and shrubs and constituting part of the plant family Sapindaceae. They grow naturally in New Guinea, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Australia, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga; and the most widespread species and type species A. littoralis grows throughout Malesia and across Southeast Asia, from NE. India, southern China, Borneo, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines to as far east as New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
Mark Marathon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
- SapindaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 2.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
7 occurrences of Arytera on record. 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
7 occurrences- Miocene14%
- Pleistocene86%
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
1 formation
- Lower Churia Formation · Siwalik Group1
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The named rock units Arytera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
278 taxa- Acacia6 sites
- Agathis6 sites
- Araucaria6 sites
- Archontophoenix6 sites
- Argyrodendron6 sites
- Asteraceae6 sites
- Balanops6 sites
- Callitris6 sites
- Casuarinaceae6 sites
- Celtis6 sites
- Cunoniaceae6 sites
- Cyathea6 sites
- Davalliaceae6 sites
- Dodonaea6 sites
- Drynaria6 sites
- Elaeocarpus6 sites
- Eucalyptus6 sites
- Ficus6 sites
- Flindersia6 sites
- Glochidion6 sites
- Lonchocarpus6 sites
- Macaranga6 sites
- Mallotus6 sites
- Melicope6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Arytera, 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 complete pollen record of the last 230 ka from Lynch's Crater, north-eastern Australia6
- Angiospermous fossil leaves from the Siwalik foreland basins and their palaeoclimatic implications1
Each of the 7 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Arytera
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Mark Marathon
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Arytera 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Arytera”
- 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 itSapindaceae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blume 1849