Merremia sp.
Merremia is a genus of flowering plants in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Members of the genus are commonly known as woodroses.

J.M.Garg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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.
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Merremia sp. 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
1 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
- San Sebastian Formation · Rio Guatemala Group1
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The named rock units Merremia sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Merremia sp. and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Merremia sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- <fern>1 site
- Acacia1 site
- Alchornea1 site
- Arecaceae1 site
- Bernoullia1 site
- Brunellia sp.1 site
- Catostemma sp.1 site
- Corynostylis sp.1 site
- Cyathea1 site
- Engelhardia1 site
- Guarea sp.1 site
- Hauya sp.1 site
- Liquidambar1 site
- Lycopodium1 site
- Nyssa1 site
- Plantae1 site
- Pleodendron sp.1 site
- Polypodiaceae1 site
- Rhizophora1 site
- Salix1 site
- Tetrorchidium sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Merremia sp., 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Merremia sp.
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- J.M.Garg
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Merremia sp. 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Merremia”
- 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 itFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.