Astronium

A picture published with the record for Astronium. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
AnacardiaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 45.9 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 12 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 12 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 12 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 12 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–32 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45.9 Mya20.45 Mya57 Mya4 Mya

12 occurrences of Astronium on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

12 occurrences

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

4 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.25°WGreen River — 39.78°N, 107.87°WDalianhe — 46.00°N, 129.00°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°E

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The named rock units Astronium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Astronium and its relatives

Eocene

Where Astronium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

423 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Astronium, 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

6 references

Each of the 12 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 content1

Picture of Astronium

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAnacardiaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jacquin 1760