Banisteria

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MalpighiaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 54 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Banisteria on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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.
Banisteria and its relatives
MioceneWhere Banisteria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
135 taxa- Annona2 sites
- Bignonia2 sites
- Cassia2 sites
- Ficus2 sites
- Momisia2 sites
- Styrax2 sites
- Tetracera2 sites
- Acmopyle engelhardti1 site
- Acrodiclidium oligocaenicum1 site
- Adenocalymma tertiaria n. sp.1 site
- Allamanda crassostipitata1 site
- Allophyllus eduliformis1 site
- Allophyllus graciliformis1 site
- Ampelodaphne grandifolia1 site
- Anacardites1 site
- Anacardites pichileufensis1 site
- Araucaria1 site
- Ardisia1 site
- Asplenium1 site
- Astronium1 site
- Atherospermophyllum guinazui1 site
- Azara celastriniforma n. sp.1 site
- Azara tertiartia1 site
- Bambusium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Banisteria, 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
3 references- Tertiary flora from the Rio Pichileufu, Argentina1
- Tertiary plants from Eastern Peru1
- Miocene fossil plants from Northern Peru1
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. 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 Banisteria
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- BotBN
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Banisteria 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMalpighiaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753