Bauhinia

Bauhinia is a large genus of flowering plants in the subfamily Cercidoideae and tribe Bauhinieae, in the large flowering plant family Fabaceae, with a pantropical distribution. The genus was named after the Bauhin brothers Gaspard and Johann, Swiss-French botanists.

Bauhinia

Tatiana Gerus from Brisbane, Australia · CC BY 2.0 · 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
FabaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 92 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 38 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 38 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 38 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 38 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 38 occurrencesMiocene — about 13 of 38 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 38 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 38 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 5 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–51 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences93.9 Mya1.8 Mya103 Mya0 Mya

38 occurrences of Bauhinia 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

38 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

15 formations

Fort Union — 42.28°N, 108.11°WFort Union — 44.92°N, 107.17°WTuscaloosa — 33.92°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.61°N, 87.74°WTuscaloosa — 33.17°N, 87.43°WNkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°EDunvegan — 56.22°N, 120.12°WLower — 29.14°N, 80.19°EEutaw — 32.88°N, 87.59°WIguincha — 3.40°S, 79.10°WComox — 49.75°N, 125.00°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EWuyun — 49.28°N, 129.67°EChangsheling — 23.75°N, 106.92°EXiaolongtan — 23.33°N, 104.28°EHuazhige — 23.02°N, 104.38°ETipam — 27.19°N, 95.47°EHarudi — 23.65°N, 68.66°E

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The named rock units Bauhinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bauhinia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Bauhinia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

614 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Bauhinia, 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

21 references

Each of the 38 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. 9 further references are not listed. 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 Bauhinia

Credit
Tatiana Gerus from Brisbane, Australia
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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.

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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. Linnaeus 1753