Nephelium
Nephelium is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the family Sapindaceae, native to southeastern Asia.

Muhammad Mahdi Karim · GFDL 1.2 · 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
- SapindaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
3 occurrences of Nephelium on record. 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
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
3 formations
- Tikak Parbat Formation · Barail Group1
- Lower Churia Formation · Siwalik Group1
- Liuqu Formation1
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The named rock units Nephelium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
163 taxa- Aglaia nepalensis1 site
- Albizia siwalica1 site
- Alstonia1 site
- Alstonia nepalensis1 site
- Alyxia koilabasensis1 site
- Anacolosa mioluzoniensis1 site
- Anisophyllea siwalica1 site
- Annona1 site
- Anogeissus eosericea1 site
- Anona koilabasensis1 site
- Antidesma miocenica1 site
- Antidesma siwalica1 site
- Apollonias sp.1 site
- Artocarpus nepalensis1 site
- Arytera seriaensis1 site
- Atalantia miocenica1 site
- Avicennia1 site
- Berchemia nepalensis1 site
- Berchemia siwalica1 site
- Bouea koilabasensis1 site
- Bouea premacrophylla1 site
- Bridelia1 site
- Brucea darwajensis1 site
- Caesalpinites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Nephelium, 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
3 references- Angiospermous fossil leaves from the Siwalik foreland basins and their palaeoclimatic implications1
- Nypa megafossils from the Tertiary sediments of Northeast India1
- A catalogue of Cenozoic megafossil plants in China1
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
Media content1
Picture of Nephelium
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Muhammad Mahdi Karim
- Licence
- GFDL 1.2
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nephelium 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, “Nephelium”
- 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 itSapindaceae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1767