Ficus sphericus
Searched as Ficus sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Ficus sphericus as the accepted name.
No picture of Ficus sphericus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ficus sphericus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FicusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 51 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ficus sphericus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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 Ficus sphericus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ficus sphericus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Ficus sphericus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Ampelocissus bravoi1 site
- Anacardium1 site
- Anona peruviana1 site
- Carpolithes1 site
- Cissus willardi1 site
- Cucurbites1 site
- Cupanoides peruvianus1 site
- Fagara piurana1 site
- Jatropha tertiaria1 site
- Leguminosites1 site
- Leguminosites belensis1 site
- Lithospermites glabrum1 site
- Malvacarpus1 site
- Matayba1 site
- Palmocarpon belensis1 site
- Palmocarpon bravoi1 site
- Palmocarpon cocoides1 site
- Psychotria eogenica1 site
- Saccoglottis cipaconensis1 site
- Sapinoides peruvianus1 site
- Tetracera belensis1 site
- Uragoga tertiaria1 site
- Vantanea compressiformis1 site
- Virola tertiaria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ficus sphericus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 4, The Peruvian Oligocene1
- Early Tertiary fruits and seeds from Belen, Peru1
- The Lower Eocene floras of Southeastern North America1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Ficus sphericus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ficus sphericus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ficus sphericus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFicus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Berry 1929