Dodonaea

Dodonaea, commonly known as hop-bushes, is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia and Australasia, but 59 species are endemic to Australia.

Dodonaea

B.navez · 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
SapindaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 60 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 60 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 60 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 60 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 60 occurrencesPleistocene — about 48 of 60 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 13 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 37 occurrences37.71 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

60 occurrences of Dodonaea on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

60 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

6 formations

Olduvai — 2.96°S, 35.31°EMcBean — 33.45°N, 82.20°WOkinoyama — 34.00°N, 131.00°EMorwell — 38.23°S, 146.62°EBopesta — 35.30°N, 118.50°WXiaolongtan — 23.81°N, 103.20°E

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The named rock units Dodonaea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 52 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dodonaea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Dodonaea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

865 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Dodonaea, 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

15 references

Each of the 60 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. 3 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 Dodonaea

Credit
B.navez
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
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 itSapindaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1758