Landolphia

Landolphia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1806. They take the form of vines that scramble over host trees. Landolphia is native to tropical Africa.

Landolphia

Uncredited · 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
ApocynaceaePBDB
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.

Paleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.8–6.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.1–4.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57 Mya4 Mya

2 occurrences of Landolphia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

1 formation

Ngorora — 0.88°N, 35.80°E

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The named rock units Landolphia 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.

Landolphia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Landolphia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

148 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Landolphia, 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Landolphia

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Landolphia 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.

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 itApocynaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Beauvois