Mespilodaphne

Mespilodaphne is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lauraceae. It includes nine species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Mexico through Central and northern South America to northern Brazil and Peru.

No picture of Mespilodaphne was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Mespilodaphne, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LauraceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 11 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 9 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 11 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–8.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.5–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–2.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66 Mya23.04 Mya85 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Mespilodaphne on record. 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

11 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

Zamek — 62.19°S, 58.45°W

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The named rock units Mespilodaphne has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

75 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Mespilodaphne, 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

9 references

Each of the 11 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 content0

No picture of Mespilodaphne was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Mespilodaphne, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mespilodaphne 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 itLauraceae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nees 1833