Cerbera
Cerbera is a genus of evergreen trees or shrubs, native to tropical Asia, Australia, Madagascar, and various islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public Domain · 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
- PlantaePBDB
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cerbera 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
1 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
- Okinoyama Formation · Ube Group1
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The named rock units Cerbera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cerbera and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cerbera and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Caesalpinea microphylla1 site
- Caesalpinea ubensis1 site
- Callicarpa1 site
- Cedrela1 site
- Cordia1 site
- Dendropanax ubensis1 site
- Diospyros1 site
- Distylium1 site
- Dodonaea1 site
- Ginkgo adiantoides1 site
- Gleditsia1 site
- Glyptostrobus europaeus1 site
- Ilex1 site
- Leguminosites1 site
- Ligustrum1 site
- Maackia1 site
- Mangifera1 site
- Metasequoia occidentalis1 site
- Millettia1 site
- Myrica1 site
- Myrsine1 site
- Neolitsea1 site
- Paliurus1 site
- Parabenzoin cuneata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cerbera, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Cerbera
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Dave Love SketchFab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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, “Cerbera”
- 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 itPlantae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753