Crescentia

Crescentia is a genus of six species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and northern South America. The species are moderate-size trees growing to 10 m (35 ft) tall, and producing large spherical fruits, with a thin, hard shell and soft pulp, up to 25 cm (10 in) in diameter.

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

Hans Hillewaert · 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
PlantaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 228 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences270–261 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences261–252 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–9.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.0–0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences251.902 Mya23.04 Mya270 Mya0 Mya

2 occurrences of Crescentia on record. 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

2 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 the same rock

92 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Crescentia, 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

Each of the 2 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 content2

Picture of Crescentia

Credit
Hans Hillewaert
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1753