Manicaria
Manicaria is a palm genus which is found in Trinidad, Central and South America. It contains two accepted species:Manicaria martiana Burret – Colombia, northwestern Brazil Manicaria saccifera Gaertn. – Central America, Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, northwestern Brazil
Uncredited · Public Domain · 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
- ArecaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Manicaria 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
17 occurrences- Miocene100%
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 Manicaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Manicaria and its relatives
MioceneWhere Manicaria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- <Fern>17 sites
- Rhizophora16 sites
- Plantae15 sites
- Selaginella11 sites
- Cryosophila sp.10 sites
- Malvaceae10 sites
- Cyathea9 sites
- Synechanthus sp.9 sites
- cf. Antrophyum sp.7 sites
- Ilex6 sites
- Alchornea5 sites
- Lycopodium4 sites
- Tetrorchidium sp.4 sites
- Allophylus3 sites
- Combretaceae3 sites
- Lygodium3 sites
- Malpighiaceae3 sites
- Myrtaceae3 sites
- Poaceae3 sites
- Pteris3 sites
- Rourea3 sites
- Acacia2 sites
- Asteraceae2 sites
- cf. Doliocarpus sp.2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Manicaria, 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- Studies in Neotropical Paleobotany. V. The Lower Miocene Communities of Panama - The Culebra Formation.10
- Studies in Neotropical Paleobotany. VI. The Lower Miocene Communities of Panama - The Cucaracha Formation.7
Each of the 17 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 content2
Picture of Manicaria
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Manicaria saccifera · ftg:141731
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Manicaria”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itArecaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gaertner 1791