Elaeodendron
Elaeodendron is a genus of flowering plants in the staff vine family, Celastraceae. It includes 40 species native to the tropics of the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Australia, and the South Pacific.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CelastraceaePBDB
- 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 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.
14 occurrences of Elaeodendron 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
14 occurrences- Eocene14%
- Miocene7%
- Pleistocene75%
- Holocene3%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Elaeodendron has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Elaeodendron and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Elaeodendron and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
213 taxa- Acacia11 sites
- Agathis11 sites
- Araucaria11 sites
- Argyrodendron11 sites
- Asteraceae11 sites
- Callitris11 sites
- Chenopodiaceae11 sites
- Dacrydium11 sites
- Dodonaea11 sites
- Elaeocarpus11 sites
- Eucalyptus11 sites
- Leptospermum11 sites
- Macaranga11 sites
- Mallotus11 sites
- Monolete11 sites
- Poaceae11 sites
- Podocarpus11 sites
- Proteaceae11 sites
- Rapanea11 sites
- Rutaceae11 sites
- Sapindaceae11 sites
- Trema11 sites
- Urticaceae11 sites
- Celtis10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Elaeodendron, 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
4 references- A complete pollen record of the last 230 ka from Lynch's Crater, north-eastern Australia6
- A Late Pleistocene and Holocene pollen diagram from Lynch’s Crater, northeastern Queensland, Australia5
- Fossil Flora of the Yellowstone National Park2
- Die mittelmiozaenen und obermiozaenen Floren aus der Meuroer und Raunoer Folge in der Lausitz. III. Fundstellen und Palaeobiologie1
Each of the 14 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 Elaeodendron
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Kousvet
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Elaeodendron was found in Sketchfab.
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
- 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 itCelastraceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Jaquin 1782